RxDoctor Payments Data

Amir Alizadeh, MD

Internal Medicine · North Providence, RINPI 1942333877

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,234in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 103 payments — averaging $21.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$470
  • AbbVie$223
  • GSK$190
  • Novo Nordisk$189
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$148
  • Lilly USA, LLC$133
  • plus $881 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,13496%
  • Education$1004%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$2,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$177,052
Medicare patients
215
Services billed
2,203

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban185$124,124
OzempicSemaglutide115$114,558
JardianceEmpagliflozin52$34,934
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter36$34,281
XareltoRivaroxaban25$23,806
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$23,006
TrulicityDulaglutide21$19,130
TradjentaLinagliptin23$15,469
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide21$14,359
Atorvastatin Calcium1,197$12,359
Omeprazole731$10,521
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog82$8,359
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$7,982
Levothyroxine Sodium663$7,446
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate17$7,078

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$470$124,124185 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$189$114,558115 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Stiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat$148$62,10898 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$190$34,28136 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$126$23,80625 claims
MerckJanuvia$12$23,00622 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$133$19,13021 claims
NovartisEntresto$46$7,98212 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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