RxDoctor Payments Data

Keith Matthews, NP

Primary Care · Opelika, ALNPI 1063814952

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (35.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Viiv Healthcare Company accounts for 80.9% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,767, more than ten times the $1,026 reported in 2021. Among primary care clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$19,719in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 265 payments — averaging $74.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$16K
  • Gilead$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$579
  • Theratechnologies Inc.$452
  • Merck$277
  • AbbVie$17

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,5008%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$6,90035%
  • Travel & lodging$5,46228%
  • Food & beverage$5,79329%
  • Education$650%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Viiv Healthcare Company151$15,944
Gilead45$2,451
Johnson & Johnson36$579
Theratechnologies Inc.21$452
Merck11$277
AbbVie1$17

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

$19,719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 159 primary care providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$14,630
Medicare patients
37
Services billed
314

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala535$2,152,651
OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala143$536,158
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine131$395,583
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium123$256,488
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam72$148,517
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf23$107,469
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine26$90,657
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi26$82,721
CabenuvaCabotegravir/Rilpivirine12$80,305
PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat33$79,115
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen12$47,011
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate37$25,184
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl20$22,852
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$19,955
EliquisApixaban25$14,049

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
GileadBiktarvy, Descovy, Genvoya$2,451$2,348,179619 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato, Tivicay, Juluca, Triumeq, Cabenuva$15,944$905,753318 claims
Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix$579$79,11533 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr$277$48,03657 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 95th percentile of 159 primary care providers in Alabama.

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