RxDoctor Payments Data

Joel Riley, MD

Internal Medicine · Etowah, TNNPI 1659338044

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,586in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 633 payments — averaging $15.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$845
  • Lilly USA, LLC$805
  • AbbVie$743
  • Novartis$716
  • AstraZeneca$539
  • plus $5K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,41898%
  • Education$1682%

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

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$9,586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

See all internal medicine providers in Tennessee

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$218,886
Medicare patients
347
Services billed
7,978

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
EliquisApixaban294$212,019
JardianceEmpagliflozin203$142,641
TrulicityDulaglutide109$119,956
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin119$93,627
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol140$88,706
MounjaroTirzepatide74$88,363
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter98$74,425
XareltoRivaroxaban77$70,091
TradjentaLinagliptin93$55,474
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl47$32,011
ProliaDenosumab13$22,376
Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin29$20,118
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine13$19,165
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide24$11,563
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl17$10,962

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Glyxambi, Tradjenta, Synjardy Xr, Trijardy Xr$452$349,602502 claims
PfizerEliquis$440$212,019294 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$805$208,319183 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$539$88,706140 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$319$74,42598 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$217$70,09177 claims
AmgenProlia$1,030$22,37613 claims
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta$24$19,16513 claims
MerckJanumet, Belsomra$83$15,56028 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$144$11,56324 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$33$10,93524 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$743$9,34470 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 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

Other internal medicine in Etowah

See the full list for Tennessee

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →