RxDoctor Payments Data

Diego Alcaraz Alvarez, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Scranton, PANPI 1376992446

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,656in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $24.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$409
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$303
  • Lilly USA, LLC$272
  • AstraZeneca$138
  • Novo Nordisk$137
  • Medtronic$117
  • plus $279 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,656100%

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

$1,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 388 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$61,599
Medicare patients
450
Services billed
936

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
OzempicSemaglutide407$620,715
JardianceEmpagliflozin290$352,391
TrulicityDulaglutide244$313,634
MounjaroTirzepatide99$106,939
Sandostatin Lar DepotOctreotide Acetate,mi-Spheres12$58,876
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec69$58,571
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog61$55,166
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol39$53,121
Humulin R U-500 KwikpenInsulin Regular, Human24$53,090
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart167$52,685
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/747$51,517
TradjentaLinagliptin40$47,058
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog24$40,697
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog75$36,125
Victoza 3-PakLiraglutide31$34,147

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, Rybelsus, Novolog$137$659,421477 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro, Humalog$272$425,680363 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$303$399,450330 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$138$53,12139 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$30$10,378154 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 50th percentile of 388 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Pennsylvania.

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