RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Rucker, MD

Internal Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1255435525

Payments from drug & device makers

$628in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $15.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$175
  • Bayer$88
  • Lilly USA, LLC$54
  • Novartis$54
  • Novo Nordisk$50
  • Pfizer$41
  • plus $167 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$61498%
  • Education$142%

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

$628 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$54,375
Medicare patients
112
Services billed
669

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
EliquisApixaban23$25,034
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol23$17,001
RybelsusSemaglutide11$9,722
Clonidine17$977
Telmisartan12$874
Olmesartan Medoxomil15$457
Atorvastatin Calcium58$452
Chlorthalidone29$406
Nifedipine ErNifedipine15$400
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate11$397
Glipizide32$391
Valsartan25$380
Pravastatin Sodium25$356
Levetiracetam13$282
Carvedilol31$230

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$41$25,03423 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$175$17,00123 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus$50$9,72211 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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