RxDoctor Payments Data

Eduard Tapliga, MD

Internal Medicine · Hackettstown, NJNPI 1356302483

Payments from drug & device makers

$907in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $16.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$228
  • AstraZeneca$123
  • Exact Sciences$87
  • Novartis$75
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$57
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$55
  • plus $283 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$907100%

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

$907 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,760
Medicare patients
146
Services billed
724

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
OzempicSemaglutide20$18,559
EliquisApixaban13$11,701
Atorvastatin Calcium239$2,660
Ezetimibe45$1,666
Levothyroxine Sodium77$937
Amlodipine Besylate-BenazeprilAmlodipine Besylate/Benazepril16$906
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl52$869
Rosuvastatin Calcium54$724
Pravastatin Sodium36$716
Olmesartan Medoxomil12$671
Losartan Potassium74$619
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium23$579
Amlodipine Besylate104$555
Metoprolol Succinate41$552
Metformin Hcl58$424

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
PfizerEliquis$15$11,70113 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$13$57923 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 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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