RxDoctor Payments Data

Augustine Okpala, MD

Internal Medicine · Newton, NJNPI 1124085766

Payments from drug & device makers

$802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $14.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • EMD Serono, Inc.$262
  • Merck$148
  • Johnson & Johnson$94
  • Novo Nordisk$74
  • AbbVie$67
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$49
  • plus $107 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$802100%

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

$802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$412,096
Medicare patients
226
Services billed
3,655

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
EliquisApixaban79$27,831
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$11,143
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide17$8,456
XareltoRivaroxaban13$8,206
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$6,246
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol33$4,961
Enoxaparin Sodium36$2,871
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro14$2,210
Atorvastatin Calcium163$2,115
Pantoprazole Sodium86$1,783
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate58$1,324
Amlodipine Besylate163$1,321
Divalproex Sodium37$1,041
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate71$1,031
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog16$943

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
PfizerEliquis$18$27,83179 claims
MerckJanuvia$148$11,14318 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$94$8,20613 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 60th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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