RxDoctor Payments Data

Harry Studdard, MD

Internal Medicine · Mobile, ALNPI 1144217837

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.9% of the total across 435 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 52 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 10.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,888 and has fallen 68.4% since, to $596 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$7,627in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 435 payments — averaging $17.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$799
  • AstraZeneca$787
  • Novo Nordisk$755
  • Bayer$666
  • Corcept Therapeutics$460
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$367
  • plus $4K from 46 others
$12,902,218in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2,534 payments — averaging $5091.64 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$4.4M
  • Emergent Biosolutions Inc.$2.2M
  • Johnson & Johnson$1.5M
  • Seqirus USA Inc$1.3M
  • Novavax Inc$542K
  • GSK$528K
  • plus $2.5M from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,31596%
  • Education$2914%
  • Gifts$200%

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

$7,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$65,012
Medicare patients
150
Services billed
835

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
OzempicSemaglutide390$464,382
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol140$145,105
TrulicityDulaglutide103$132,610
MounjaroTirzepatide77$85,191
RybelsusSemaglutide41$70,089
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl76$57,679
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate54$56,429
JardianceEmpagliflozin50$50,801
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec63$41,520
EliquisApixaban40$38,201
XareltoRivaroxaban41$38,028
TradjentaLinagliptin36$37,071
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin33$33,357
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab36$29,274
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter24$23,631

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, Rybelsus$755$534,471431 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$337$217,801180 claims
Boehringer IngelheimSynjardy Xr, Jardiance, Tradjenta$177$145,550162 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$787$145,105140 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$22$69,37269 claims
PfizerEliquis$139$38,20140 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$30$38,02841 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$93$33,83146 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet, Nexletol$147$30,53347 claims
NovartisEntresto$92$22,36311 claims
AbbVieLinzess$799$13,54818 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$130$11,91512 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 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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