RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Brightfield, MD

Internal Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1881613347

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,384in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 276 payments — averaging $15.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$934
  • Novo Nordisk$550
  • Pfizer$383
  • GSK$359
  • Novartis$328
  • Lilly USA, LLC$210
  • plus $2K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$190%
  • Food & beverage$4,365100%

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

$4,384 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$195,445
Medicare patients
573
Services billed
1,817

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
EliquisApixaban141$140,856
XareltoRivaroxaban23$32,675
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$27,002
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$26,882
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$19,489
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf65$17,211
OzempicSemaglutide17$16,530
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf51$12,321
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec15$7,038
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium74$6,739
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog65$6,190
Levothyroxine Sodium667$6,029
Atorvastatin Calcium850$5,212
Amlodipine Besylate618$3,735
Losartan Potassium396$3,479

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, Abrysvo, Paxlovid$383$156,036214 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$114$32,67523 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$88$27,00218 claims
MerckJanuvia$60$26,88217 claims
GSKArexvy$359$17,21165 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$550$16,53017 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$934$6,73974 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 85th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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