RxDoctor Payments Data

Azeb Tesfalidet, MD

Family Medicine · Frederick, MDNPI 1487687521

Payments from drug & device makers

$507in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $20.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$147
  • Pfizer$75
  • AbbVie$58
  • Johnson & Johnson$56
  • Merck$46
  • Boston Scientific$33
  • plus $92 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$507100%

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

$507 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$116,025
Medicare patients
348
Services billed
1,740

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin50$77,535
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate41$54,937
OzempicSemaglutide30$54,087
MounjaroTirzepatide20$41,173
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol13$10,221
Rosuvastatin Calcium257$7,932
Atorvastatin Calcium496$6,088
Icosapent Ethyl25$5,656
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$3,989
Levothyroxine Sodium289$2,637
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium38$2,411
Lisinopril277$2,307
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate76$2,143
Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic11$2,139
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl46$2,089

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$46$54,93741 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$147$54,08730 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$15$10,22113 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$58$2,41138 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 55th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.

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