RxDoctor Payments Data

Babu Kumar, MD

Internal Medicine · Hamden, CTNPI 1295721942

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,198in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 868 payments — averaging $18.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$1K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • GSK$1K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
  • plus $7K from 46 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$300%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1801%
  • Food & beverage$15,93998%
  • Education$490%

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

$16,198 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
$187,095
Medicare patients
436
Services billed
1,953

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
OzempicSemaglutide192$201,904
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol203$201,169
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate169$165,303
JardianceEmpagliflozin124$160,873
EliquisApixaban134$143,464
TradjentaLinagliptin90$89,363
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab43$50,812
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl48$47,072
LinzessLinaclotide49$40,642
XareltoRivaroxaban34$38,106
MounjaroTirzepatide28$32,313
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol66$29,539
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl44$27,335
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog141$22,718
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog40$19,618

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Spiriva Respimat$1,071$256,440226 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr, Lagevrio (Eua)$399$237,797245 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,634$201,904192 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$2,446$201,169203 claims
PfizerEliquis$1,173$143,464134 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Restasis$542$48,53261 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$191$38,10634 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$1,433$32,31328 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$1,086$29,53966 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$379$8,88811 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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