RxDoctor Payments Data

David Kimmel, MD

Internal Medicine · Banner Elk, NCNPI 1053306092

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,180in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $14.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$715
  • Novo Nordisk$225
  • AstraZeneca$219
  • Pfizer$168
  • Mylan Specialty L.p.$130
  • Novartis$124
  • plus $597 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,180100%

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

$2,180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$139,150
Medicare patients
484
Services billed
3,424

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
EliquisApixaban368$286,940
OzempicSemaglutide123$136,752
XareltoRivaroxaban112$93,139
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol82$74,382
VraylarCariprazine Hcl23$35,102
TrulicityDulaglutide34$32,313
MyrbetriqMirabegron64$27,143
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/714$24,368
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan18$22,013
FiaspInsulin Aspart (Niacinamide)14$20,123
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$19,889
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab37$19,613
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate55$19,327
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol32$15,164
LinzessLinaclotide28$14,251

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$168$286,940368 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Fiasp$225$156,875137 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Brilinta$219$98,530149 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$715$93,139112 claims
AbbVieVraylar, Linzess, Synthroid, Combigan$47$60,196152 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$82$32,31334 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta$30$24,19147 claims
NovartisEntresto$124$22,01318 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$29$6,40713 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 80th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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