RxDoctor Payments Data

Arthur Lebowitz, MD

Internal Medicine · Thomaston, CTNPI 1205851169

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,666in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 954 payments — averaging $17.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • Bayer$2K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • plus $7K from 33 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$16,51499%
  • Education$1531%

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

$16,666 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$134,484
Medicare patients
305
Services billed
1,577

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
OzempicSemaglutide111$120,193
JardianceEmpagliflozin82$82,759
EliquisApixaban54$62,345
TrulicityDulaglutide44$62,074
RybelsusSemaglutide46$60,466
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate44$60,182
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol45$45,224
XareltoRivaroxaban42$41,856
TradjentaLinagliptin25$27,044
MounjaroTirzepatide21$24,207
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter24$15,443
LinzessLinaclotide19$14,196
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$12,794
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec12$12,508
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate33$10,113

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$1,819$180,659157 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$1,513$109,803107 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$1,143$86,28165 claims
PfizerEliquis$1,382$62,34554 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Breztri Aerosphere$1,916$62,32189 claims
MerckJanuvia$513$60,18244 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$323$41,85642 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$661$24,65646 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$1,210$18,49769 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$173$7,67511 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 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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