RxDoctor Payments Data

David Chen, MD

Internal Medicine · Bethesda, MDNPI 1174571293

Payments from drug & device makers

$462in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $17.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$82
  • Novo Nordisk$66
  • Pfizer$64
  • AstraZeneca$43
  • Merck$40
  • AbbVie$34
  • plus $134 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$44697%
  • Education$163%

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

$462 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$134,137
Medicare patients
212
Services billed
1,519

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$48,168
OzempicSemaglutide33$40,659
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$19,724
GemtesaVibegron19$9,610
Rosuvastatin Calcium231$6,077
Atorvastatin Calcium204$2,673
Valsartan46$2,156
Ezetimibe41$1,832
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium29$1,778
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl109$1,514
Amlodipine Besylate176$1,462
Levothyroxine Sodium95$1,104
Tamsulosin Hcl55$1,063
Losartan Potassium108$1,010
Telmisartan11$809

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$66$40,65933 claims
MerckJanuvia$40$19,72412 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$34$1,77829 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 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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