RxDoctor Payments Data

John Tucker, MD

Internal Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1154741056

Payments from drug & device makers

$183in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $30.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$89
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$47
  • Pfizer$28
  • AbbVie$18
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$1

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$182100%
  • Education$10%

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

$183 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$250,498
Medicare patients
649
Services billed
3,137

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
MounjaroTirzepatide197$297,465
EliquisApixaban180$206,316
OzempicSemaglutide129$173,049
JardianceEmpagliflozin119$157,424
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab54$70,213
ForteoTeriparatide12$52,351
XareltoRivaroxaban36$39,826
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate27$38,723
MyrbetriqMirabegron48$37,248
TrulicityDulaglutide34$37,021
EmsamSelegiline12$24,680
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$18,354
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$18,348
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec12$13,804
Atorvastatin Calcium929$12,834

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, Forteo, Trulicity$89$386,837243 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin, Paxlovid$28$214,253214 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$18$3,30744 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 35th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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