RxDoctor Payments Data

Liza Bastin, MD

Internal Medicine · Lexington, KYNPI 1518427566

Payments from drug & device makers

$591in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $17.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$171
  • Lilly USA, LLC$114
  • AbbVie$87
  • Amgen$51
  • Mylan Specialty L.p.$38
  • Pfizer$29
  • plus $100 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$591100%

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

$591 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,543
Medicare patients
29
Services billed
55

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin141$150,863
OzempicSemaglutide91$107,190
EliquisApixaban41$38,832
RybelsusSemaglutide17$35,680
MounjaroTirzepatide26$29,467
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab37$21,690
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate16$17,738
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab15$15,605
LinzessLinaclotide13$12,912
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter14$10,848
Novolog Mix 70-30 FlexpenInsulin Aspart Prot/Insuln Asp12$4,241
Levothyroxine Sodium306$2,550
BreynaBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$2,543
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium45$2,191
Gabapentin274$2,006

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$150,863141 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$171$142,871108 claims
PfizerEliquis$29$38,83241 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$114$29,46726 claims
MerckJanuvia$29$17,73816 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$87$15,10458 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 55th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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