RxDoctor Payments Data

Lakshmi Potakamuri, MD

Internal Medicine · Canton, OHNPI 1528394269

Payments from drug & device makers

$371in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $20.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$109
  • Novartis$67
  • Boston Scientific$60
  • AstraZeneca$32
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$31
  • Abiomed$24
  • plus $49 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$371100%

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

$371 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$88,525
Medicare patients
910
Services billed
1,660

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
EliquisApixaban218$215,426
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan60$84,201
XareltoRivaroxaban65$64,259
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$33,333
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab27$27,974
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$6,924
Atorvastatin Calcium478$3,845
Metoprolol Succinate264$3,148
Losartan Potassium204$1,847
Amlodipine Besylate271$1,740
Metoprolol Tartrate284$1,527
Carvedilol181$1,466
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate138$1,279
Ezetimibe68$1,218
Amiodarone Hcl62$1,185

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
NovartisEntresto$67$84,20160 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$109$64,25965 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 60th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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