RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Straka, MD

Internal Medicine · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1336147735

Payments from drug & device makers

$580in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $15.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$91
  • Novartis$78
  • Merck$69
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$53
  • Johnson & Johnson$50
  • Novo Nordisk$45
  • plus $195 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$580100%

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

19
20

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

$580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$115,023
Medicare patients
543
Services billed
2,895

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
EliquisApixaban220$277,324
JardianceEmpagliflozin68$90,358
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate58$74,000
XareltoRivaroxaban41$47,913
OzempicSemaglutide32$39,918
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr13$16,946
Atorvastatin Calcium1,103$14,992
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol45$14,004
MounjaroTirzepatide11$12,288
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog56$9,090
Levothyroxine Sodium743$9,039
Omeprazole381$8,297
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir36$7,999
Tamsulosin Hcl234$5,542
Metoprolol Succinate319$5,336

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, Paxlovid$41$285,323256 claims
MerckJanuvia$69$74,00058 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$50$47,91341 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$45$39,91832 claims
GSKAnoro Ellipta$30$16,94613 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$24$12,28811 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 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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