RxDoctor Payments Data

Kevin Pounds, MD

Family Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1831138569

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,328 of the $8,398 with a category attached, or 75.3%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eli Lilly at 38.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,339 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $230 in 2025. Among family medicine clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$8,398in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $101.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$3K
  • Modernatx, Inc.$3K
  • Novo Nordisk AS$2K
  • AstraZeneca$107
  • AbbVie$89
  • Abbott$84
  • plus $156 from 6 others
$1,894,477in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 303 payments — averaging $6252.40 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$657K
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$432K
  • Eli Lilly$359K
  • Novo Nordisk AS$227K
  • Sanofi US Services Inc.$113K
  • AstraZeneca$66K
  • plus $40K from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$6,32875%
  • Food & beverage$2,03124%
  • Education$400%

General payments by program year

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25

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

$8,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,099 family medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$126,465
Medicare patients
378
Services billed
3,573

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
TrulicityDulaglutide26$29,698
EliquisApixaban32$29,120
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$26,849
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter21$22,780
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$22,575
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$16,617
XareltoRivaroxaban22$15,769
RybelsusSemaglutide13$12,062
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate12$5,070
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$4,907
Atorvastatin Calcium497$4,274
Levothyroxine Sodium339$3,191
Gabapentin109$2,535
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole12$2,401
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol11$2,312

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$15$27,68633 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$107$27,64528 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus$18$12,06213 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$89$1,21830 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 2,099 family medicine providers in Arizona.

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