RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Aleo, MD

Internal Medicine · Ellicott City, MDNPI 1831176577

Payments from drug & device makers

$218in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $21.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$81
  • Merck$57
  • Pfizer$35
  • Amgen$32
  • Quidel Corporation$14

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$218100%

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
22
23
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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Astellas Pharma US Inc3$81
Merck2$57
Pfizer2$35
Amgen2$32
Quidel Corporation1$14

How this compares

$218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$172,870
Medicare patients
348
Services billed
6,889

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
EliquisApixaban30$44,082
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$41,386
OzempicSemaglutide17$28,746
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$12,035
Valsartan196$5,704
Rosuvastatin Calcium278$5,076
Atorvastatin Calcium419$4,435
Irbesartan194$3,560
Levothyroxine Sodium282$3,158
Ezetimibe49$2,952
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir30$2,859
Metoprolol Succinate104$1,971
Amlodipine Besylate308$1,682
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide18$1,561
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium65$1,238

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, Paxlovid$35$46,94160 claims
MerckJanuvia$57$12,03514 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 50th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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