RxDoctor Payments Data

Ghalia Al Azmeh, MD

Internal Medicine · Gainesville, GANPI 1386148583

Payments from drug & device makers

$728in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $21.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$109
  • Novartis$103
  • Novo Nordisk$90
  • GSK$57
  • Dexcom, Inc.$49
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$44
  • plus $277 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$728100%

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

$728 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$44,058
Medicare patients
223
Services billed
721

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
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$20,575
OzempicSemaglutide13$14,791
EliquisApixaban12$13,437
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf20$4,350
Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac15$1,043
Atorvastatin Calcium75$655
Levothyroxine Sodium53$514
Losartan Potassium61$390
Rosuvastatin Calcium33$348
Metformin Hcl37$343
Pantoprazole Sodium17$326
Amlodipine Besylate45$304
Fluticasone Propionate12$292
Metoprolol Succinate24$290
Simvastatin21$278

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$90$14,79113 claims
PfizerEliquis$36$13,43712 claims
GSKShingrix$57$4,35020 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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