RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Heflin, MD

Internal Medicine · Fernley, NVNPI 1447201447

Payments from drug & device makers

$189in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $21.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mannkind Corporation$73
  • AbbVie$48
  • Merck$29
  • AstraZeneca$20
  • GSK$19

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13069%
  • Gifts$5931%

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
21
22
24

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
Mannkind Corporation2$73
AbbVie(2 entities)3$48
Merck2$29
AstraZeneca1$20
GSK1$19

How this compares

$189 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$253,046
Medicare patients
480
Services billed
1,923

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
EliquisApixaban159$101,132
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter39$34,362
XareltoRivaroxaban42$26,744
JardianceEmpagliflozin39$15,273
MyrbetriqMirabegron18$14,787
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog37$8,078
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine11$7,684
Potassium Chloride325$7,177
Gabapentin364$6,364
Quetiapine Fumarate256$6,143
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide11$5,800
Divalproex Sodium126$5,590
Duloxetine Hcl118$5,386
Atorvastatin Calcium313$5,317
Levothyroxine Sodium378$4,663

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$19$34,36239 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 45th percentile of 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.

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