RxDoctor Payments Data

Duane Strand, MD

Internal Medicine · Wahpeton, NDNPI 1871521245

Payments from drug & device makers

$35in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $11.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$19
  • Merck$15
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$1

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3497%
  • Education$13%

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

19
21
23

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

$35 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 159 internal medicine providers in North Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$317,276
Medicare patients
561
Services billed
9,124

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin263$162,798
EliquisApixaban273$141,113
OzempicSemaglutide137$134,350
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate93$84,080
TrulicityDulaglutide63$73,057
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol71$54,768
XareltoRivaroxaban36$40,921
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec46$26,273
RybelsusSemaglutide25$24,987
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec18$16,772
Metoprolol Succinate642$9,886
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol54$9,322
Fiasp FlextouchInsulin Aspart (Niacinamide)16$9,196
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog16$9,042
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog83$8,876

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
MerckJanuvia$15$84,08093 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$19$3,81617 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 30th percentile of 159 internal medicine providers in North Dakota.

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