RxDoctor Payments Data

Brian Pickett, MD

Internal Medicine · Cranston, RINPI 1497828628

Payments from drug & device makers

$429in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $17.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$178
  • Solventum Corporation$88
  • Johnson & Johnson$56
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$21
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$21
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$19
  • plus $47 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$41497%
  • Education$153%

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

$429 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$71,667
Medicare patients
312
Services billed
664

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin109$113,368
EliquisApixaban112$101,978
XareltoRivaroxaban72$76,975
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter79$53,150
OzempicSemaglutide30$27,507
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$12,693
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol20$9,595
Atorvastatin Calcium792$9,430
Glipizide-MetforminGlipizide/Metformin Hcl137$8,008
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl13$7,416
LinzessLinaclotide11$6,506
MyrbetriqMirabegron12$5,625
Omeprazole364$5,601
BelsomraSuvorexant12$4,982
Amlodipine Besylate542$4,498

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$15$113,368109 claims
PfizerEliquis$178$101,978112 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$56$76,97572 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$17$9,09243 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$21$5,62512 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 70th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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