RxDoctor Payments Data

Li Zhou, MD

Internal Medicine · Boston, MANPI 1942247978

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,511in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $62.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$282
  • Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$58
  • AstraZeneca$31
  • Globus Medical$25
  • Pfizer$15

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,10073%
  • Food & beverage$39626%
  • Education$151%

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

$1,511 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$61,743
Medicare patients
289
Services billed
844

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
EliquisApixaban33$35,139
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$29,149
TrulicityDulaglutide12$25,092
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$22,023
XareltoRivaroxaban12$18,685
OzempicSemaglutide12$15,004
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl18$10,348
Testosterone16$4,178
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase18$4,105
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$3,562
Pregabalin27$3,455
Atorvastatin Calcium286$3,020
Estradiol14$2,189
Omeprazole118$2,123
Amlodipine Besylate314$2,026

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$15$35,13933 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$31$22,02314 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$282$15,00412 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 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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