RxDoctor Payments Data

Faiz Afridi

Internal Medicine · Newark, NJNPI 1124480132

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,552in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 179 payments — averaging $19.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$736
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$523
  • QOL Medical, LLC$205
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$201
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$193
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$192
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$201%
  • Grants$201%
  • Food & beverage$3,49498%
  • Education$191%

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

$3,552 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$61,704
Medicare patients
209
Services billed
463

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
RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide14$28,188
LinzessLinaclotide22$19,462
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf51$8,039
Omeprazole180$1,779
Esomeprazole Magnesium54$1,572
Colestipol Hcl14$1,357
Pantoprazole Sodium64$1,336
Rabeprazole Sodium15$765
Famotidine20$124

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor$523$28,18814 claims
AbbVieLinzess$736$19,46222 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$187$8,03951 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 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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