RxDoctor Payments Data

Chandrasekhar Kothuru, MD

Internal Medicine · California, MDNPI 1598287328

Payments from drug & device makers

$718in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $18.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$220
  • Bayer$102
  • Exact Sciences$76
  • Novo Nordisk$57
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$45
  • Amgen$44
  • plus $174 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$718100%

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

$718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$105,706
Medicare patients
241
Services billed
2,317

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
TrulicityDulaglutide38$63,604
EliquisApixaban56$50,226
JardianceEmpagliflozin35$43,310
LinzessLinaclotide13$15,925
GemtesaVibegron15$10,948
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$9,726
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol15$5,996
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog18$3,961
Atorvastatin Calcium267$1,943
Omeprazole87$1,716
Esomeprazole Magnesium19$1,649
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate65$1,627
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl15$1,582
Colchicine19$1,545
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate25$1,396

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, LLCTrulicity$220$63,60438 claims
PfizerEliquis$28$50,22656 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$45$10,94815 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 65th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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