RxDoctor Payments Data

Imad Alazem, MD

Rheumatology · Dearborn, MINPI 1265402630

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,519in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 285 payments — averaging $19.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$922
  • AbbVie$807
  • GSK$641
  • Johnson & Johnson$544
  • Pfizer$470
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$364
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,12393%
  • Education$3967%

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

$5,519 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 195 rheumatology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$963,024
Medicare patients
265
Services billed
28,303

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
OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose13$72,268
OzempicSemaglutide22$33,346
MounjaroTirzepatide25$31,533
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter32$24,998
EliquisApixaban28$24,901
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium578$14,967
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$9,196
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate167$7,798
Celecoxib111$3,830
Levothyroxine Sodium280$3,192
Leflunomide55$3,089
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen194$2,870
Colchicine28$2,449
Metoprolol Succinate104$2,336
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide91$1,861

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
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia$364$72,26813 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$641$24,99832 claims
PfizerEliquis$470$24,90128 claims
NovartisEntresto$303$9,19612 claims
AbbVieArmour Thyroid$807$1,15912 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 55th percentile of 195 rheumatology providers in Michigan.

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