RxDoctor Payments Data

Christine Chang, MD

Internal Medicine · Worcester, MANPI 1467441170

Payments from drug & device makers

$370in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $20.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$110
  • Johnson & Johnson$91
  • Novo Nordisk$78
  • AstraZeneca$37
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$24
  • Amgen$18
  • plus $13 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$32588%
  • Education$4512%

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

19
20

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

$370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,172
Medicare patients
224
Services billed
7,020

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
EliquisApixaban57$70,267
OzempicSemaglutide66$67,279
JardianceEmpagliflozin40$55,087
XareltoRivaroxaban17$24,070
TrulicityDulaglutide13$16,378
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$14,084
Valsartan251$12,781
MounjaroTirzepatide11$11,510
Atorvastatin Calcium421$7,582
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol12$3,631
Metoprolol Succinate135$2,640
Omeprazole137$2,537
Lisinopril221$2,519
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol17$2,461
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate75$2,328

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$110$70,26757 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$78$67,27966 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$91$24,07017 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 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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