RxDoctor Payments Data

Ara Apelian, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Piscataway, NJNPI 1679687073

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,308in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 309 payments — averaging $17.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$647
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$594
  • Bayer$345
  • AstraZeneca$288
  • Mannkind Corporation$284
  • Novo Nordisk$273
  • plus $3K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,308100%

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

$5,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 367 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$171,352
Medicare patients
374
Services billed
2,014

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol147$133,092
OzempicSemaglutide70$104,795
JardianceEmpagliflozin89$100,108
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate86$93,464
MounjaroTirzepatide52$84,010
TrulicityDulaglutide43$69,303
EliquisApixaban86$65,554
XareltoRivaroxaban20$31,470
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide25$29,016
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog24$28,197
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres22$24,898
Lyumjev Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro-Aabc20$22,203
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec37$19,418
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog23$13,826
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro45$13,563

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity, Humalog$647$159,174109 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$288$133,092147 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$131$106,385100 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$273$104,79570 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$225$100,10889 claims
PfizerEliquis$70$65,55486 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$594$29,01625 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$30$8,561100 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$13$5,382449 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 70th percentile of 367 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in New Jersey.

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