RxDoctor Payments Data

Jennifer Nicolini, MD

Internal Medicine · Arden, NCNPI 1477529725

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,099in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $17.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$165
  • Lilly USA, LLC$162
  • AstraZeneca$137
  • Novo Nordisk$99
  • Pfizer$87
  • Abbott$73
  • plus $376 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,099100%

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

$1,099 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$116,722
Medicare patients
249
Services billed
1,497

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
OzempicSemaglutide47$55,486
EliquisApixaban49$48,644
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$20,961
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$20,317
MounjaroTirzepatide11$11,114
LinzessLinaclotide14$7,357
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium49$4,282
Levothyroxine Sodium211$1,762
Losartan Potassium160$1,644
Celecoxib64$1,496
Trazodone Hcl102$1,470
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl44$1,399
Omeprazole96$1,186
Metoprolol Succinate75$1,069
Atorvastatin Calcium91$1,012

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$99$55,48647 claims
PfizerEliquis$87$48,64449 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$13$20,96117 claims
MerckJanuvia$17$20,31717 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$165$11,63963 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$162$11,11411 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 75th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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