RxDoctor Payments Data

Gamal Eskander, MD

Family Medicine · Cookeville, TNNPI 1659351542

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,236in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $22.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$324
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$147
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$100
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$94
  • Pfizer$75
  • GSK$72
  • plus $424 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,236100%

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

$1,236 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,151
Medicare patients
15
Services billed
24

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
EliquisApixaban27$21,820
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$1,021
Atorvastatin Calcium55$894
Omeprazole39$758
Famotidine27$676
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate18$450
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl12$332
Levothyroxine Sodium36$331
Losartan Potassium26$312
Lisinopril54$266
Buspirone Hcl17$263
Rosuvastatin Calcium13$255
Amlodipine Besylate36$236
Pantoprazole Sodium27$222
Trazodone Hcl19$211

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
PfizerEliquis$75$21,82027 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 60th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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