RxDoctor Payments Data

Ewa Bak, MD

Internal Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1336185339

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,555in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 244 payments — averaging $18.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$458
  • AbbVie$388
  • Amgen$332
  • Pfizer$329
  • Novo Nordisk$262
  • Heartflow, Inc.$253
  • plus $3K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,555100%

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

$4,555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,763
Medicare patients
266
Services billed
1,092

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
EliquisApixaban72$65,228
MounjaroTirzepatide56$64,748
OzempicSemaglutide58$57,341
XareltoRivaroxaban19$27,777
TrulicityDulaglutide25$27,319
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$24,214
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$16,384
Atorvastatin Calcium507$4,553
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate19$4,543
Levothyroxine Sodium355$3,493
Rosuvastatin Calcium184$3,051
Losartan Potassium231$2,505
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium56$2,476
Amlodipine Besylate476$2,421
Omeprazole163$2,251

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, Trulicity$164$92,06781 claims
PfizerEliquis$329$65,22872 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$262$57,34158 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$90$27,77719 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$19$24,21424 claims
MerckJanuvia$136$16,38413 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$458$4,54319 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$388$2,47656 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 85th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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