RxDoctor Payments Data

Brian James, MD

Family Medicine · Decatur, ALNPI 1932356110

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,527in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 426 payments — averaging $15.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$787
  • Lilly USA, LLC$593
  • Pfizer$453
  • AstraZeneca$429
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$429
  • plus $3K from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,48699%
  • Education$411%

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

$6,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$269,335
Medicare patients
460
Services billed
7,871

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
MounjaroTirzepatide162$203,835
EliquisApixaban123$135,017
OzempicSemaglutide52$74,532
XareltoRivaroxaban82$72,675
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate66$63,116
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol39$39,485
TrulicityDulaglutide28$26,269
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$22,472
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin24$22,392
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl22$21,313
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog23$17,793
TradjentaLinagliptin17$15,253
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter18$14,242
Esomeprazole Magnesium106$12,233
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog21$12,209

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$593$230,104190 claims
PfizerEliquis$453$135,017123 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr$51$84,43088 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$787$74,53252 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$176$72,67582 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy Xr$37$44,10142 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$429$39,48539 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$196$23,08635 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$186$10,54517 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$279$10,04412 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 85th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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