RxDoctor Payments Data

Dianne Defusco, MD

Internal Medicine · North Haven, CTNPI 1063584787

Payments from drug & device makers

$938in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $17.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$161
  • GSK$153
  • AbbVie$110
  • Johnson & Johnson$68
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$54
  • Merck$53
  • plus $339 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$938100%

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

$938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,985
Medicare patients
108
Services billed
239

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
OzempicSemaglutide94$111,619
EliquisApixaban26$27,993
XareltoRivaroxaban16$26,518
MounjaroTirzepatide21$25,290
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$18,413
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol24$11,196
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium74$7,765
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl16$6,158
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol15$4,715
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate15$3,717
Levothyroxine Sodium326$3,575
Rosuvastatin Calcium289$2,927
Atorvastatin Calcium267$1,904
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol30$1,612
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl49$1,463

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$161$111,61994 claims
PfizerEliquis$52$27,99326 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$68$26,51816 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$27$25,29021 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$153$11,19624 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$110$7,76574 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 75th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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