RxDoctor Payments Data

Edward Knish, MD

Internal Medicine · Matthews, NCNPI 1356365878

Payments from drug & device makers

$985in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $17.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$285
  • Pfizer$155
  • Amgen$145
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$63
  • Abbott$55
  • AbbVie$45
  • plus $237 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$985100%

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

$985 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$220,094
Medicare patients
486
Services billed
4,468

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
EliquisApixaban124$120,553
OzempicSemaglutide86$104,298
JardianceEmpagliflozin44$61,800
XareltoRivaroxaban23$30,636
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$13,750
LinzessLinaclotide23$12,016
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated20$9,922
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol19$8,214
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec13$6,386
Testosterone11$6,285
Omeprazole413$5,899
Gabapentin246$4,654
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog30$4,497
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro14$4,388
Levothyroxine Sodium453$4,316

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, Premarin, Paxlovid$155$133,333163 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$285$104,29886 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Shingrix$17$24,90646 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$45$15,78569 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$13$2,58011 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 70th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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