RxDoctor Payments Data

Binod Bista, MD

Family Medicine · Athens, ALNPI 1073769493

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,535in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $18.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$241
  • Pfizer$199
  • Alk-abello, Inc$154
  • AstraZeneca$130
  • Novo Nordisk$129
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$122
  • plus $559 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,44594%
  • Other$906%

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

$1,535 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$86,498
Medicare patients
170
Services billed
1,705

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
OzempicSemaglutide94$127,684
EliquisApixaban35$47,604
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate40$46,589
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter37$33,147
JardianceEmpagliflozin34$29,017
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$27,513
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase12$22,181
LinzessLinaclotide19$16,611
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec19$12,263
XareltoRivaroxaban11$7,960
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate12$6,812
Atorvastatin Calcium470$5,534
Levothyroxine Sodium309$3,594
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog35$3,238
Tamsulosin Hcl144$3,235

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$129$127,68494 claims
PfizerEliquis$199$47,60435 claims
MerckJanuvia$241$46,58940 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$21$38,79231 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$71$33,14737 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$130$27,51317 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 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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