RxDoctor Payments Data

Henry Sleesman, MD

Internal Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1982681110

Payments from drug & device makers

$547in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $17.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$147
  • AbbVie$78
  • Lilly USA, LLC$53
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$46
  • GSK$35
  • Novo Nordisk$31
  • plus $157 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$547100%

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

$547 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$153,136
Medicare patients
281
Services billed
5,652

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
EliquisApixaban219$170,089
XareltoRivaroxaban63$64,951
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate58$53,678
OzempicSemaglutide40$50,727
TradjentaLinagliptin34$21,643
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter21$12,878
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog60$11,534
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$10,214
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$7,257
Atorvastatin Calcium862$6,702
BrilintaTicagrelor12$5,299
ProzacFluoxetine Hcl11$4,600
Levothyroxine Sodium539$4,209
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf16$3,926
Metoprolol Succinate276$3,592

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, Paxlovid$147$171,518243 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$31$50,72740 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta, Jardiance$16$31,85751 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Shingrix$35$16,80437 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$14$5,29912 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$78$2,44176 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 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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