RxDoctor Payments Data

Kamran Farrukh, MD

Internal Medicine · Cleveland, TNNPI 1760447205

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,949in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 463 payments — averaging $17.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • AstraZeneca$636
  • AbbVie$619
  • Lilly USA, LLC$507
  • Pfizer$465
  • Amgen$432
  • plus $4K from 45 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,949100%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$7,949 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$95,987
Medicare patients
312
Services billed
1,451

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
OzempicSemaglutide103$133,294
EliquisApixaban117$87,577
TrulicityDulaglutide47$70,786
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate69$64,572
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec42$49,753
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol65$46,377
JardianceEmpagliflozin39$45,568
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl37$37,777
MounjaroTirzepatide21$22,216
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter22$21,547
XareltoRivaroxaban13$17,791
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin23$16,544
RybelsusSemaglutide13$12,788
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog72$12,495
Humalog Kwikpen U-200Insulin Lispro14$12,197

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$1,530$146,082116 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$50$102,349106 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$507$93,00268 claims
PfizerEliquis$465$87,577117 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Glyxambi$249$62,11162 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Nexium$636$52,36276 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$173$25,94233 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$392$17,79113 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$196$10,03312 claims
NovartisEntresto$18$8,43611 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$127$5,73320 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 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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