RxDoctor Payments Data

Kathleen Nichols, MD

Internal Medicine · Avondale, AZNPI 1245241215

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,036in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $42.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$3K
  • Novo Nordisk$283
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$217
  • Lilly USA, LLC$115
  • Merck$99
  • AstraZeneca$97
  • plus $863 from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,03640%
  • Gifts$3,00060%

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

$5,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$47,812
Medicare patients
175
Services billed
700

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
OzempicSemaglutide44$45,884
TrulicityDulaglutide17$20,739
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$15,351
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$13,728
TradjentaLinagliptin12$6,502
Rosuvastatin Calcium96$1,423
Losartan Potassium109$1,218
Levothyroxine Sodium128$1,208
Atorvastatin Calcium104$1,195
Gabapentin66$1,114
Duloxetine Hcl40$997
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium13$933
Metoprolol Succinate42$757
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl76$707
Pantoprazole Sodium44$643

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$283$45,88444 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$115$20,73917 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$217$20,23123 claims
MerckJanuvia$99$15,35113 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$3,361$93313 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 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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