RxDoctor Payments Data

John Costello, MD

Internal Medicine · Branson, MONPI 1417062563

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,769in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 235 payments — averaging $16.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$599
  • Johnson & Johnson$394
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$377
  • AstraZeneca$259
  • Pfizer$196
  • plus $460 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,769100%

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

$3,769 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$38,231
Medicare patients
182
Services billed
424

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept11$143,204
MounjaroTirzepatide70$82,405
EliquisApixaban25$22,723
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab11$18,219
Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab11$6,258
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec13$5,624
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf13$3,843
Rosuvastatin Calcium244$3,336
Probenecid-ColchicineProbenecid/Colchicine17$2,179
Potassium Chloride59$1,712
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium20$1,680
Amlodipine Besylate203$1,238
Tamsulosin Hcl39$1,221
Atorvastatin Calcium128$1,110
Nifedipine ErNifedipine16$1,080

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$599$82,40570 claims
PfizerEliquis$196$22,72325 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$19$1,68020 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 85th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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