RxDoctor Payments Data

Holly Gonzales, MD

Internal Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1568705044

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,042in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $160.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$7K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$229
  • Boston Scientific$155
  • Novartis$80
  • Medtronic$79
  • Bayer$48
  • plus $58 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,50056%
  • Travel & lodging$1,76122%
  • Food & beverage$1,78122%

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

$8,042 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,523
Medicare patients
575
Services billed
2,039

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin72$83,858
EliquisApixaban64$77,845
XareltoRivaroxaban11$13,958
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$12,515
Metoprolol Succinate71$956
Atorvastatin Calcium64$754
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl22$591
Furosemide81$586
Losartan Potassium45$487
Carvedilol42$325
Rosuvastatin Calcium22$272
Spironolactone38$263
Potassium Chloride12$262
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate27$220
Torsemide20$178

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
NovartisEntresto$80$12,51516 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 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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