RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Sward, MD

Family Medicine · Cartersville, GANPI 1164587267

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,293in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $18.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$197
  • AbbVie$162
  • GSK$156
  • Pfizer$155
  • Lilly USA, LLC$112
  • Amgen$82
  • plus $430 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,293100%

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

$1,293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$202,450
Medicare patients
733
Services billed
7,866

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin175$200,888
EliquisApixaban116$100,708
OzempicSemaglutide78$77,795
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol56$64,845
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter73$58,986
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate50$55,759
Metformin Hcl336$44,873
TrulicityDulaglutide25$37,076
MounjaroTirzepatide21$23,926
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol45$22,987
RybelsusSemaglutide15$22,112
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec29$17,770
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr12$12,073
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate27$11,095
XareltoRivaroxaban11$10,509

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$64$200,888175 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Shingrix, Arnuity Ellipta$156$111,683193 claims
PfizerEliquis$155$100,708116 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$197$99,90893 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$15$75,94083 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$112$61,00246 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$72$10,50911 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 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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