RxDoctor Payments Data

Ashok Mehta, MD

Internal Medicine · Mount Juliet, TNNPI 1114961596

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,200in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $16.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$304
  • Novo Nordisk$110
  • Shield Therapeutics Inc$69
  • Insulet Corporation$68
  • AstraZeneca$60
  • Exact Sciences$55
  • plus $535 from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,200100%

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

$1,200 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$59,505
Medicare patients
167
Services billed
1,102

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
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate51$55,117
OzempicSemaglutide40$42,314
MounjaroTirzepatide33$34,475
EliquisApixaban23$26,956
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl22$17,980
XareltoRivaroxaban14$16,425
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/716$13,263
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$9,099
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog39$5,843
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate12$5,754
Levemir FlexpenInsulin Detemir23$3,723
Tizanidine Hcl32$3,186
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate103$3,057
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$2,999
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen117$2,808

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
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$25$82,19686 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$110$42,31440 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$46$34,47533 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$37$16,42514 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$60$2,99911 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 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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