RxDoctor Payments Data

Bruce Fischer, MD

Internal Medicine · Bristol, RINPI 1598766552

Payments from drug & device makers

$598in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $15.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$87
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$83
  • Pfizer$63
  • GSK$62
  • Novo Nordisk$61
  • Johnson & Johnson$52
  • plus $190 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$598100%

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

$598 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,237
Medicare patients
141
Services billed
511

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
EliquisApixaban138$102,061
OzempicSemaglutide27$26,978
WegovySemaglutide15$19,253
MyrbetriqMirabegron15$14,052
TradjentaLinagliptin13$9,862
XareltoRivaroxaban13$9,718
Atorvastatin Calcium502$4,523
DiovanValsartan12$4,197
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate12$3,068
Omeprazole172$2,855
Lisinopril315$2,579
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate11$2,361
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate90$2,271
Amlodipine Besylate306$1,940
Fluticasone Propionate121$1,933

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$63$102,061138 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Wegovy$61$46,23142 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$87$14,05215 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$52$9,71813 claims
NovartisDiovan$12$4,19712 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$18$3,06812 claims
GSKArnuity Ellipta$62$2,36111 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 75th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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