RxDoctor Payments Data

Henry Shugart, MD

Internal Medicine · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1134195126

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,117in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 121 payments — averaging $17.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$535
  • Intuity Medical Inc$376
  • Dexcom, Inc.$272
  • Pfizer$198
  • Senseonics, Incorporated$177
  • Amgen$89
  • plus $471 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,10199%
  • Education$161%

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

$2,117 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$202,955
Medicare patients
361
Services billed
3,800

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
EliquisApixaban163$131,817
OzempicSemaglutide81$93,383
XareltoRivaroxaban30$31,526
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$26,127
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec24$25,143
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol29$24,465
MounjaroTirzepatide23$23,726
LinzessLinaclotide40$22,369
VraylarCariprazine Hcl12$16,365
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$14,046
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide14$13,709
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen451$11,290
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol30$11,166
TrulicityDulaglutide11$10,078
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog18$10,015

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$198$131,817163 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar$535$38,73452 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$54$31,52630 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$11$29,10449 claims
NovartisEntresto$19$14,04611 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$27$13,70914 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$13$11,16630 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 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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