RxDoctor Payments Data

Hugh Rutledge, MD

Internal Medicine · Palm Harbor, FLNPI 1437254885

Payments from drug & device makers

$829in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $18.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$217
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$109
  • Pfizer$69
  • Novo Nordisk$61
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$60
  • AbbVie$54
  • plus $258 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$829100%

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

$829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$87,645
Medicare patients
225
Services billed
1,298

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
EliquisApixaban62$53,473
JardianceEmpagliflozin44$46,367
OzempicSemaglutide25$35,661
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab24$17,472
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$12,476
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter16$10,368
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr12$5,704
Varenicline Tartrate15$3,605
Levothyroxine Sodium309$3,154
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro22$3,125
Ezetimibe158$2,964
Atorvastatin Calcium253$2,720
Rosuvastatin Calcium223$2,576
Losartan Potassium225$2,478
Gabapentin105$2,448

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$69$53,47362 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$60$46,36744 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$61$35,66125 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$34$16,07328 claims
NovartisEntresto$32$12,47614 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$54$1,51814 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 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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