RxDoctor Payments Data

Franklin Bufford, MD

Family Medicine · Auburn, ALNPI 1083706758

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,103in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 443 payments — averaging $16.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$458
  • Abbott$347
  • Pfizer$290
  • Corium, LLC$279
  • plus $3K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,097100%
  • Education$60%

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

$7,103 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$51,654
Medicare patients
203
Services billed
625

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
MounjaroTirzepatide92$107,861
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol100$77,031
TrulicityDulaglutide41$55,082
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl56$44,685
OzempicSemaglutide30$34,113
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter54$33,893
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate37$28,948
EliquisApixaban38$28,357
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$26,277
LinzessLinaclotide28$19,107
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab13$10,662
Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin22$9,521
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres11$8,608
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm11$7,426
Rosuvastatin Calcium290$6,313

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$209$162,943133 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,081$77,031100 claims
MerckJanumet Xr, Januvia$54$73,63293 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Trijardy Xr$65$35,79737 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$458$34,11330 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$225$33,89354 claims
PfizerEliquis$290$28,35738 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$1,938$24,988107 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$13$6,10711 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 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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