RxDoctor Payments Data

Lauren Thoma, MD

Family Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1215317391

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,679in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 439 payments — averaging $15.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$977
  • AbbVie$964
  • Novo Nordisk$691
  • Lilly USA, LLC$500
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$434
  • AstraZeneca$316
  • plus $3K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,668100%
  • Education$120%

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

$6,679 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$120,515
Medicare patients
223
Services billed
3,710

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
EliquisApixaban70$58,032
MounjaroTirzepatide29$53,758
OzempicSemaglutide41$51,669
JardianceEmpagliflozin34$40,440
RybelsusSemaglutide17$26,737
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate19$23,228
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide12$21,624
MyrbetriqMirabegron23$17,185
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter14$9,716
Jentadueto XrLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl11$5,999
Atorvastatin Calcium382$2,757
Levothyroxine Sodium311$2,450
Estradiol23$1,462
Colestipol Hcl13$1,411
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium23$1,351

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$691$78,40558 claims
PfizerEliquis$977$58,03270 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$500$53,75829 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Jentadueto Xr$434$46,43945 claims
MerckJanuvia$72$23,22819 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$58$21,62412 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$99$17,18523 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$267$9,71614 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$964$1,35123 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 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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