RxDoctor Payments Data

Amy Strassburg, MD

Internal Medicine · Mobile, ALNPI 1396730925

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.1% of the total across 1,333 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 50 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among internal medicine clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$18,234in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,333 payments — averaging $13.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$4K
  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$988
  • plus $7K from 44 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$18,07799%
  • Education$1561%

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.

How this compares

$18,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$308,409
Medicare patients
390
Services billed
12,876

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
OzempicSemaglutide526$729,804
MounjaroTirzepatide96$126,244
LinzessLinaclotide94$107,736
EliquisApixaban84$104,697
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol81$93,230
XareltoRivaroxaban55$57,736
RybelsusSemaglutide22$50,925
TrulicityDulaglutide30$47,474
VraylarCariprazine Hcl17$44,414
TradjentaLinagliptin37$41,370
MyrbetriqMirabegron55$39,915
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec56$30,517
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec29$29,484
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$29,239
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl31$28,881

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$2,487$780,729548 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$988$173,718126 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Synthroid$3,847$156,455161 claims
PfizerEliquis, Protonix$920$109,74895 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$863$93,23081 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta, Jardiance, Spiriva Respimat$117$83,88377 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,135$57,73655 claims
MerckJanumet Xr, Januvia, Belsomra$197$49,96659 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$549$39,91555 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$485$26,89124 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$1,802$25,32124 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$232$24,01925 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 95th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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