RxDoctor Payments Data

Edwin Cohen Azarkian, MD

Internal Medicine · Forest Hills, NYNPI 1609290519

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,704in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 268 payments — averaging $28.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$820
  • Novo Nordisk$787
  • Amgen$720
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$662
  • Abbott$558
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$515
  • plus $4K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,60099%
  • Education$1051%

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

$7,704 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$85,307
Medicare patients
196
Services billed
1,222

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
OzempicSemaglutide211$282,063
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol274$215,629
KerendiaFinerenone198$149,547
TrulicityDulaglutide143$141,282
MounjaroTirzepatide76$128,949
JardianceEmpagliflozin194$126,630
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl187$105,936
Metformin Er GastricMetformin Hcl48$85,798
TrulancePlecanatide98$83,006
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate108$65,757
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl134$64,971
TradjentaLinagliptin111$57,629
Diclofenac Sodium103$48,969
EliquisApixaban67$46,768
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan63$45,092

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$787$293,998223 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$417$270,231219 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Jentadueto, Synjardy, Glyxambi$662$233,847379 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$820$229,009295 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia$17$171,693295 claims
BayerKerendia$339$149,547198 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$382$83,00698 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Namzaric$336$56,62593 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$194$48,29576 claims
PfizerEliquis$49$46,76867 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$157$42,56073 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$229$32,30957 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 90th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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