RxDoctor Payments Data

Frank Kessler, MD

Internal Medicine · Brewster, NYNPI 1679500086

Payments from drug & device makers

$107in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $15.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$34
  • Pfizer$34
  • Lilly USA, LLC$24
  • Johnson & Johnson$16

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$107100%

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

19
20
21

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie(2 entities)2$34
Pfizer2$34
Lilly USA, LLC2$24
Johnson & Johnson1$16

How this compares

$107 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$299,515
Medicare patients
598
Services billed
3,505

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin154$175,299
MounjaroTirzepatide129$152,691
OzempicSemaglutide94$123,962
EliquisApixaban90$101,712
XareltoRivaroxaban50$47,021
TrulicityDulaglutide27$40,594
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter23$21,681
ViberziEluxadoline14$21,287
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl11$19,081
WegovySemaglutide12$15,868
MyrbetriqMirabegron16$13,621
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol74$13,390
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate13$8,823
Levothyroxine Sodium382$7,608
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$7,162

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$24$193,285156 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$34$104,457135 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$16$47,02150 claims
AbbVieViberzi, Synthroid$34$25,422100 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 35th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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