RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Rupard, MD

Family Medicine · Shelbyville, TNNPI 1861451338

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,476in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $19.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$151
  • Novartis$146
  • AbbVie$141
  • Organogenesis Inc.$117
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$112
  • Medtronic$86
  • plus $723 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,476100%

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

$1,476 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$148,279
Medicare patients
306
Services billed
2,545

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
EliquisApixaban140$67,457
OzempicSemaglutide51$50,746
LinzessLinaclotide44$38,195
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl468$31,787
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol34$28,938
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$20,994
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$19,881
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol19$15,085
XareltoRivaroxaban57$12,019
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter14$10,515
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin17$9,658
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen228$6,691
Bevespi AerosphereGlycopyrrolate/Formoterol Fum13$5,395
Gabapentin316$5,065
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$3,983

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$34$67,457140 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Bevespi Aerosphere, Symbicort$24$53,40180 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$75$50,74651 claims
AbbVieLinzess$141$38,19544 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$49$20,99421 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$151$12,01957 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$47$10,51514 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 60th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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