RxDoctor Payments Data

David Abdehou, MD

Internal Medicine · Shreveport, LANPI 1568471993

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,932in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 516 payments — averaging $15.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$2K
  • AbbVie$552
  • Novo Nordisk$402
  • Pfizer$366
  • Lilly USA, LLC$361
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$361
  • plus $4K from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,83199%
  • Education$1011%

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

$7,932 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$239,855
Medicare patients
629
Services billed
3,574

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
OzempicSemaglutide151$151,994
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol98$81,341
EliquisApixaban113$76,885
MounjaroTirzepatide62$73,477
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate45$55,855
TrulicityDulaglutide33$36,182
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide43$23,356
XareltoRivaroxaban35$22,909
MyrbetriqMirabegron31$19,880
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl14$12,950
LinzessLinaclotide19$12,277
MultaqDronedarone Hcl12$11,286
Memantine Hcl153$10,307
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol16$10,005
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$9,371

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$402$151,994151 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$361$109,65995 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$357$91,346114 claims
PfizerEliquis$366$76,885113 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$244$68,80559 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$108$23,35643 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$122$22,90935 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$131$19,88031 claims
AbbVieLinzess$552$12,27719 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$41$11,28612 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$262$9,37112 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 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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