RxDoctor Payments Data

Dima Alfakara, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1295175529

Payments from drug & device makers

$756in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $42.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$212
  • Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd$211
  • BETA Bionics, Inc.$138
  • Abbott$105
  • Novartis$31
  • Sequel Med Tech, LLC$29
  • plus $31 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$756100%

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

$756 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 219 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$12,439
Medicare patients
75
Services billed
125

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
MounjaroTirzepatide44$58,256
OzempicSemaglutide19$18,124
TrulicityDulaglutide13$11,809
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog35$3,745
Levothyroxine Sodium99$1,450
Alendronate Sodium34$648
Methimazole42$634
Hydrocortisone21$600
Potassium Chloride12$529
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl20$345
Triamterene-HydrochlorothiazidTriamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid12$107
Amlodipine Besylate12$71
Simvastatin12$66

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$212$18,12419 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 35th percentile of 219 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Michigan.

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