RxDoctor Payments Data

Elizabeth Sosebee

Family · Opelika, ALNPI 1902531106

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,260in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $29.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$277
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$265
  • Amgen$244
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$222
  • Merck$218
  • Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$175
  • plus $858 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,24699%
  • Education$141%

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

$2,260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,415 family providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$46,375
Medicare patients
281
Services billed
486

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
EliquisApixaban434$322,456
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan190$175,699
BrilintaTicagrelor95$44,337
XareltoRivaroxaban26$25,948
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol31$24,254
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl19$7,989
Metoprolol Succinate402$7,833
Ranolazine ErRanolazine37$4,188
Potassium Chloride220$3,458
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone12$3,136
Atorvastatin Calcium233$3,094
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate179$2,538
Carvedilol192$2,173
SotalolSotalol Hcl92$2,051
Propafenone Hcl13$1,922

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$38$322,456434 claims
NovartisEntresto$60$175,699190 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$58$68,591126 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$20$25,94826 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 75th percentile of 3,415 family providers in Alabama.

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