RxDoctor Payments Data

Ethan Zimmerman, MD

Family Medicine · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1972682292

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,235in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 204 payments — averaging $15.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$714
  • Lilly USA, LLC$531
  • Novo Nordisk$403
  • GSK$230
  • Pfizer$216
  • Bayer$192
  • plus $950 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,226100%
  • Education$80%

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.

How this compares

$3,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$105,592
Medicare patients
202
Services billed
4,167

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter52$50,718
OzempicSemaglutide18$42,790
TrulicityDulaglutide15$41,142
MounjaroTirzepatide23$28,763
EliquisApixaban20$28,548
XareltoRivaroxaban16$24,708
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol21$22,113
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$20,362
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec19$16,689
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec12$3,979
Atorvastatin Calcium271$3,800
Rosuvastatin Calcium142$2,779
Valsartan40$2,755
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide30$2,131
Escitalopram Oxalate113$1,907

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, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$531$69,90538 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$230$50,71852 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$403$42,79018 claims
PfizerEliquis$216$28,54820 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$129$24,70816 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$714$22,11321 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$56$20,36214 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$145$56016 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 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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