RxDoctor Payments Data

Gary Kuhns, MD

Internal Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1962455683

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,231in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 351 payments — averaging $17.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$737
  • AbbVie$639
  • Novo Nordisk$606
  • Lilly USA, LLC$566
  • Pfizer$464
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$363
  • plus $3K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,216100%
  • Education$150%

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

$6,231 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$179,323
Medicare patients
395
Services billed
1,897

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
EliquisApixaban95$91,520
OzempicSemaglutide60$65,901
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate42$52,195
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol56$51,357
JardianceEmpagliflozin40$48,971
XareltoRivaroxaban35$36,163
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter32$30,384
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl25$29,680
LinzessLinaclotide25$25,353
TrulicityDulaglutide13$24,326
UbrelvyUbrogepant12$20,950
RybelsusSemaglutide14$13,820
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen340$7,941
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol13$7,885
Oxycodone Hcl317$7,443

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$464$91,52095 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$606$79,72274 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$737$59,24269 claims
MerckJanuvia$123$52,19542 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Ubrelvy, Synthroid$639$49,29767 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$324$48,97140 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$136$36,16335 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$292$30,38432 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$566$24,32613 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$28$3,28413 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$15$2,42736 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 90th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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