RxDoctor Payments Data

Anas Al-Sheikh, MD

Internal Medicine · Sterling Heights, MINPI 1902249766

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,365in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 243 payments — averaging $17.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$881
  • Novo Nordisk$464
  • Bayer$424
  • Pfizer$342
  • Johnson & Johnson$324
  • Lilly USA, LLC$297
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,365100%

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

$4,365 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$124,400
Medicare patients
221
Services billed
1,265

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
OzempicSemaglutide100$101,448
TrulicityDulaglutide68$65,162
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol108$64,229
JardianceEmpagliflozin62$50,369
EliquisApixaban70$48,000
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter44$28,374
XareltoRivaroxaban31$21,652
ProliaDenosumab12$19,682
LinzessLinaclotide25$13,528
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab18$9,768
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe12$9,694
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$8,459
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl17$6,843
MyrbetriqMirabegron13$5,544
NexletolBempedoic Acid12$4,785

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$464$101,448100 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$297$65,16268 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$223$50,36962 claims
PfizerEliquis$342$48,00070 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$78$28,37444 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$324$21,65231 claims
AmgenProlia$881$19,68212 claims
AbbVieLinzess$17$13,52825 claims
NovartisEntresto$44$8,45914 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 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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