RxDoctor Payments Data

David Persson, MD

Internal Medicine · Hot Springs Village, ARNPI 1720082530

Payments from drug & device makers

$466in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $16.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$100
  • GSK$100
  • AstraZeneca$57
  • AbbVie$44
  • Amgen$33
  • Novartis$31
  • plus $101 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$43694%
  • Education$306%

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

$466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 614 internal medicine providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,417
Medicare patients
204
Services billed
841

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
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$5,611
Atorvastatin Calcium142$1,191
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium13$957
Gabapentin49$804
Levothyroxine Sodium80$758
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide11$757
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate16$672
Lisinopril92$647
Omeprazole43$614
Tamsulosin Hcl27$475
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide27$445
Metoprolol Succinate21$436
Losartan Potassium60$427
Ezetimibe23$419
Amlodipine Besylate75$404

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
GSKBreo Ellipta$100$5,61111 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$44$95713 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 614 internal medicine providers in Arkansas.

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