RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Brignola, MD

Internal Medicine · Nutley, NJNPI 1508824897

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,684in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 649 payments — averaging $13.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • AstraZeneca$944
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$721
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$717
  • Lilly USA, LLC$566
  • Pfizer$519
  • plus $4K from 48 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,678100%
  • Education$60%

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

$8,684 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$169,823
Medicare patients
228
Services billed
2,997

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
OzempicSemaglutide48$51,453
EliquisApixaban145$45,782
GlatopaGlatiramer Acetate48$42,503
TradjentaLinagliptin43$38,510
JardianceEmpagliflozin35$32,665
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate57$32,368
XareltoRivaroxaban173$29,492
TrulicityDulaglutide27$25,889
IsentressRaltegravir Potassium12$25,598
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate33$11,912
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter15$8,903
Cinacalcet Hcl19$7,848
MyrbetriqMirabegron44$7,296
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate36$6,809
LinzessLinaclotide11$6,298

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 IngelheimTradjenta, Jardiance$717$71,17578 claims
MerckJanuvia, Isentress$327$57,96669 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,362$51,45348 claims
PfizerEliquis$519$45,782145 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$97$29,492173 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$566$25,88927 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Brilinta, Atacand, Symbicort$944$21,002112 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$186$14,27728 claims
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom$17$11,91233 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Qulipta$188$11,54623 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$94$7,29644 claims
NovartisEntresto$241$2,66017 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 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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