RxDoctor Payments Data

Dhanu Bhat, MD

Internal Medicine · Lewis Center, OHNPI 1083993000

Payments from drug & device makers

$501in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $12.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$144
  • Pfizer$111
  • Novo Nordisk$76
  • Amgen$37
  • Lilly USA, LLC$27
  • Novartis$26
  • plus $81 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$49599%
  • Education$61%

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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20

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

$501 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,980
Medicare patients
220
Services billed
889

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
OzempicSemaglutide28$37,096
TrulicityDulaglutide28$28,438
EliquisApixaban14$20,444
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$19,783
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$18,429
Atorvastatin Calcium249$2,384
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$1,548
Levothyroxine Sodium127$1,461
Omeprazole124$1,394
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl59$1,236
Duloxetine Hcl33$1,087
Rosuvastatin Calcium110$1,082
Losartan Potassium115$905
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate37$870
Metoprolol Succinate52$821

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$76$37,09628 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$27$28,43828 claims
PfizerEliquis$111$20,44414 claims
MerckJanuvia$11$18,42911 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 65th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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