RxDoctor Payments Data

Howard Zahalsky, MD

Internal Medicine · Arlington, VANPI 1376722496

Payments from drug & device makers

$391in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $16.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$88
  • AbbVie$73
  • AstraZeneca$57
  • Merck$50
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$46
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$21
  • plus $56 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$391100%

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

$391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$143,325
Medicare patients
248
Services billed
2,305

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
EliquisApixaban28$44,800
OzempicSemaglutide19$31,729
XareltoRivaroxaban17$28,145
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$28,014
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol14$5,491
Rosuvastatin Calcium202$3,368
Levothyroxine Sodium148$2,151
Atorvastatin Calcium239$1,959
Olmesartan Medoxomil72$1,830
Nebivolol Hcl29$1,548
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium22$1,493
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide25$1,352
Metoprolol Succinate83$1,266
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl16$1,150
Valsartan27$1,011

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$18$44,80028 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$73$1,49322 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 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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