RxDoctor Payments Data

Ezekiel Sakyiama, MD

Internal Medicine · Cedar Falls, IANPI 1518913524

Payments from drug & device makers

$841in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $26.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$188
  • Exact Sciences$122
  • Dexcom, Inc.$92
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$91
  • Amgen$60
  • Novartis$47
  • plus $239 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$841100%

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

$841 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 583 internal medicine providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$27,666
Medicare patients
55
Services billed
307

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin42$50,762
OzempicSemaglutide30$29,767
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate32$22,046
XareltoRivaroxaban24$20,948
TrulicityDulaglutide22$20,216
EliquisApixaban19$16,799
TradjentaLinagliptin13$7,417
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol14$5,479
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog29$2,941
Gabapentin83$2,320
Atorvastatin Calcium260$1,709
Lidocaine16$1,627
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen56$1,466
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate41$1,378
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate22$1,305

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$18$29,76730 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$39$20,94824 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$44$20,21622 claims
PfizerEliquis$188$16,79919 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 80th percentile of 583 internal medicine providers in Iowa.

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