RxDoctor Payments Data

Denise Stern, MD

Internal Medicine · Brecksville, OHNPI 1659460483

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,193in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 397 payments — averaging $15.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • AstraZeneca$769
  • Novo Nordisk$472
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$397
  • Lilly USA, LLC$375
  • Merck$290
  • plus $3K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,193100%

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

$6,193 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$33,704
Medicare patients
151
Services billed
539

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
OzempicSemaglutide17$17,906
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$16,983
Rosuvastatin Calcium115$1,497
Atorvastatin Calcium116$941
Levothyroxine Sodium84$657
Amlodipine Besylate101$605
Lisinopril95$564
Ezetimibe29$534
Losartan Potassium45$469
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl26$412
Metoprolol Succinate32$329
Fluticasone Propionate24$306
Trazodone Hcl11$275
Omeprazole46$254
Allopurinol24$241

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$472$17,90617 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$260$16,98327 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 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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