RxDoctor Payments Data

Jennifer Best, MD

Internal Medicine · Alcoa, TNNPI 1275610339

Payments from drug & device makers

$297in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $21.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$92
  • GSK$58
  • Pfizer$35
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$19
  • AstraZeneca$17
  • Novo Nordisk$16
  • plus $60 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$23278%
  • Education$6522%

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

$297 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$82,312
Medicare patients
294
Services billed
1,288

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
EliquisApixaban107$101,579
OzempicSemaglutide56$76,686
MounjaroTirzepatide44$65,257
RybelsusSemaglutide22$39,103
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter30$33,415
LinzessLinaclotide23$29,798
XareltoRivaroxaban34$28,499
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab31$24,593
MyrbetriqMirabegron19$20,779
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$17,146
TrulicityDulaglutide13$11,958
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen351$8,738
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate12$8,034
GemtesaVibegron12$7,295
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol38$6,976

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$16$115,78978 claims
PfizerEliquis$35$101,579107 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$58$33,41530 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$92$20,77919 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 50th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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