RxDoctor Payments Data

Lori Scales, MD

Internal Medicine · Mt Washington, KYNPI 1316902109

Payments from drug & device makers

$818in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 65 payments — averaging $12.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$245
  • Lilly USA, LLC$122
  • Amgen$81
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$69
  • AbbVie$56
  • GSK$52
  • plus $193 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$818100%

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

19
20

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

$818 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,379
Medicare patients
345
Services billed
11,521

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
OzempicSemaglutide87$120,149
EliquisApixaban137$114,709
JardianceEmpagliflozin68$79,377
MounjaroTirzepatide45$62,327
XareltoRivaroxaban41$44,459
RybelsusSemaglutide26$34,919
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$32,002
TrulicityDulaglutide21$24,729
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec19$22,789
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl13$22,186
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab20$19,895
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$15,375
LinzessLinaclotide21$15,064
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog44$10,201
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart24$9,091

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$245$155,068113 claims
PfizerEliquis$46$114,709137 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$122$87,05766 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$69$79,37768 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$41$44,45941 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$56$18,938129 claims
MerckJanuvia$11$15,37511 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$52$8,69812 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 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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