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Constantine Vafidis, MD

Family Medicine · Johnston, RINPI 1467683227

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,036in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 396 payments — averaging $22.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Pfizer$892
  • Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$873
  • Amgen$690
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$556
  • plus $3K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,036100%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$9,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 222 family medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$192,950
Medicare patients
469
Services billed
1,963

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
EliquisApixaban58$47,236
OzempicSemaglutide43$42,233
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$40,435
TrulicityDulaglutide25$25,989
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$17,107
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter15$11,126
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$4,315
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate158$3,906
Atorvastatin Calcium334$3,530
Omeprazole161$2,923
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate43$2,683
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine68$2,386
Mesalamine12$2,303
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen114$2,196
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen60$1,931

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$892$47,23658 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$121$42,23343 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$189$40,43545 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$107$25,98925 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$501$11,12615 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 90th percentile of 222 family medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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