RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Buehrig, MD

Internal Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1346206927

Payments from drug & device makers

$466in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $19.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$69
  • Amgen$65
  • GSK$57
  • Novo Nordisk$54
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$51
  • Merck$41
  • plus $128 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$466100%

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

$466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$115,729
Medicare patients
369
Services billed
2,015

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
EliquisApixaban27$36,645
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$25,011
MounjaroTirzepatide22$23,078
OzempicSemaglutide18$18,981
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$17,447
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol14$5,511
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl11$4,637
Atorvastatin Calcium226$1,519
Omeprazole111$1,456
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir11$1,429
Gabapentin88$1,176
Fluvastatin Sodium11$1,046
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium23$989
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate48$965
Rosuvastatin Calcium104$956

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$22$25,01121 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$69$23,07822 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$54$18,98118 claims
MerckJanuvia$41$17,44714 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$57$5,51114 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$25$98923 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 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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