RxDoctor Payments Data

Ernesto Gutierrez, MD

Internal Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1831191725

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,326in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $41.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$405
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$388
  • Novo Nordisk$359
  • Amgen$305
  • Novartis$269
  • plus $928 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,319100%
  • Education$70%

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

$5,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$8,049
Medicare patients
26
Services billed
77

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
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$22,091
EliquisApixaban11$13,696
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen17$1,360
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$1,240
Atorvastatin Calcium92$1,100
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate18$813
Gabapentin29$669
Metoprolol Succinate33$627
Celecoxib14$582
Amlodipine Besylate64$515
Losartan Potassium55$501
Levothyroxine Sodium19$449
Fluticasone Propionate11$411
Labetalol Hcl11$385
Fluoxetine Hcl16$375

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
MerckJanuvia$45$22,09114 claims
PfizerEliquis$66$13,69611 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 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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