RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Patton, MD

Internal Medicine · Athens, GANPI 1215057559

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,473in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 149 payments — averaging $16.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$512
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$382
  • Amgen$214
  • Pfizer$145
  • Johnson & Johnson$127
  • AstraZeneca$116
  • plus $978 from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,473100%

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

$2,473 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$280,334
Medicare patients
2,185
Services billed
6,154

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
EliquisApixaban539$639,916
XareltoRivaroxaban121$137,417
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan83$102,641
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab50$49,206
JardianceEmpagliflozin28$40,017
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol39$26,150
MultaqDronedarone Hcl13$20,555
BrilintaTicagrelor19$18,810
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab13$7,094
Ranolazine ErRanolazine87$6,824
Metoprolol Succinate485$6,653
Atorvastatin Calcium593$5,914
SoaanzTorsemide13$3,907
Carvedilol388$3,636
Rosuvastatin Calcium223$3,220

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
PfizerEliquis$145$639,916539 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$127$137,417121 claims
NovartisEntresto$512$102,64183 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$116$44,95958 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$78$40,01728 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$59$20,55513 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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