RxDoctor Payments Data

Emmanuel Obi, MD

Internal Medicine · Brownsville, TNNPI 1518960640

Payments from drug & device makers

$470in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $22.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$198
  • Merck$60
  • Johnson & Johnson$32
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$30
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$26
  • Penumbra, Inc.$25
  • plus $98 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$470100%

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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25

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

$470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$152,495
Medicare patients
447
Services billed
1,675

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
MounjaroTirzepatide161$202,191
OzempicSemaglutide150$171,905
EliquisApixaban76$85,258
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate100$82,639
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol75$56,341
LinzessLinaclotide52$43,745
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$31,128
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$25,791
VraylarCariprazine Hcl14$19,231
XareltoRivaroxaban12$14,088
MyrbetriqMirabegron17$10,240
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter14$10,023
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole35$9,622
Colchicine98$8,659
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen400$8,338

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$14$202,191161 claims
PfizerEliquis$25$85,25876 claims
MerckJanuvia$60$82,639100 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar$198$62,97766 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$20$56,34175 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$32$14,08812 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 55th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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