RxDoctor Payments Data

Barbara Forseth, MD

Internal Medicine · Live Oak, TXNPI 1114077161

Payments from drug & device makers

$899in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $17.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$257
  • Abbott$134
  • GSK$71
  • Amgen$64
  • Novartis$55
  • Nevro Corp.$47
  • plus $270 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$899100%

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

$899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$60,196
Medicare patients
160
Services billed
647

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
OzempicSemaglutide22$22,611
Levothyroxine Sodium81$1,927
Gabapentin50$1,170
Atorvastatin Calcium115$892
Metoprolol Succinate28$550
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl45$451
Omeprazole29$423
Fluticasone Propionate16$410
Pantoprazole Sodium27$345
Losartan Potassium45$322
Escitalopram Oxalate32$283
Lisinopril38$265
Torsemide13$252
Amlodipine Besylate29$215
Carvedilol14$213

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$31$22,61122 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 65th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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