RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Dipirro, MD

Internal Medicine · Cheektowaga, NYNPI 1013905801

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $15.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$349
  • Novo Nordisk$295
  • Pfizer$139
  • Johnson & Johnson$90
  • AstraZeneca$89
  • Lilly USA, LLC$80
  • plus $580 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,622100%

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

$1,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$56,711
Medicare patients
110
Services billed
671

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin73$83,885
TrulicityDulaglutide58$58,310
OzempicSemaglutide41$41,261
EliquisApixaban25$38,471
RybelsusSemaglutide15$23,040
XareltoRivaroxaban23$22,916
InvokanaCanagliflozin12$12,859
Atorvastatin Calcium440$6,486
Levothyroxine Sodium316$6,002
Rosuvastatin Calcium259$4,734
Nifedipine ErNifedipine143$4,237
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium51$4,038
Metoprolol Succinate180$3,837
QnaslBeclomethasone Dipropionate12$3,438
Icosapent Ethyl12$3,323

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$295$64,30056 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$80$58,31058 claims
PfizerEliquis$139$38,47125 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invokana$90$35,77635 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$64$4,03851 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 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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