RxDoctor Payments Data

Grayson Sugarman, MD

Internal Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1366744831

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,313in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $16.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$412
  • Amgen$292
  • Novo Nordisk$140
  • Lilly USA, LLC$75
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$61
  • Johnson & Johnson$59
  • plus $275 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,307100%
  • 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

$1,313 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$24,099
Medicare patients
95
Services billed
247

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol21$25,291
EliquisApixaban25$17,709
Atorvastatin Calcium134$942
Rosuvastatin Calcium66$853
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium14$805
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen33$622
Levothyroxine Sodium54$515
Amlodipine Besylate54$418
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate13$390
Benazepril Hcl35$364
Pantoprazole Sodium36$356
Metoprolol Succinate20$275
Doxycycline Hyclate16$267
Losartan Potassium39$266
Testosterone Cypionate21$265

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$412$25,29121 claims
PfizerEliquis$38$17,70925 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$21$80514 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 75th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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