RxDoctor Payments Data

Hector Salemi-Castro, MD

Internal Medicine · Evergreen, ALNPI 1841223658

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,641in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 124 payments — averaging $13.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • Novartis$141
  • AbbVie$135
  • AstraZeneca$92
  • Pfizer$89
  • GSK$59
  • plus $100 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,641100%

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

$1,641 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,751
Medicare patients
115
Services billed
2,150

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
TrulicityDulaglutide135$150,462
LinzessLinaclotide131$79,572
VraylarCariprazine Hcl40$58,480
MounjaroTirzepatide55$57,308
JardianceEmpagliflozin86$52,907
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,518$48,987
EliquisApixaban59$37,981
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol52$33,412
OzempicSemaglutide25$28,570
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter30$25,549
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr40$24,198
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen463$17,468
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide33$17,191
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog72$10,971
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate16$8,813

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
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$26$207,770190 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar$135$138,051171 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$59$49,74770 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$89$40,54071 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$92$36,59466 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 65th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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