RxDoctor Payments Data

Carolyn Ellis

Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1225001548

Payments from drug & device makers

$340in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $20.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$125
  • Pfizer$68
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$32
  • Novo Nordisk$25
  • Exact Sciences$24
  • Lilly USA, LLC$21
  • plus $45 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$340100%

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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25

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

$340 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$86,713
Medicare patients
281
Services billed
1,293

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
EliquisApixaban115$145,008
JardianceEmpagliflozin39$47,175
RybelsusSemaglutide15$27,962
OzempicSemaglutide28$27,885
MounjaroTirzepatide18$20,866
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab24$19,894
TradjentaLinagliptin18$13,847
TrulicityDulaglutide14$13,207
MyrbetriqMirabegron12$7,714
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter11$7,322
Atorvastatin Calcium610$7,188
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol39$6,446
Levothyroxine Sodium353$5,723
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium75$4,982
Losartan Potassium381$4,836

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, Paxlovid$68$146,437130 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$25$55,84643 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$21$34,07332 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$125$7,32211 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 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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