RxDoctor Payments Data

Keith Perkins, MD

Internal Medicine · Selmer, TNNPI 1225253883

Payments from drug & device makers

$865in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $21.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$170
  • AstraZeneca$169
  • ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$126
  • Novo Nordisk$114
  • Lilly USA, LLC$99
  • Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$32
  • plus $156 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$865100%

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

$865 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,831
Medicare patients
116
Services billed
950

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
OzempicSemaglutide157$158,684
JardianceEmpagliflozin86$80,020
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter85$75,704
TrulicityDulaglutide50$48,352
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol35$32,907
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate36$29,301
LinzessLinaclotide35$26,771
EliquisApixaban31$23,959
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec23$19,520
RybelsusSemaglutide11$16,020
QuliptaAtogepant12$13,186
GemtesaVibegron15$12,000
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate21$10,127
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog63$9,593
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$9,231

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$114$174,704168 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$99$48,35250 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$169$46,42169 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Qulipta$170$39,95747 claims
MerckJanuvia$13$29,30136 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 65th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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