RxDoctor Payments Data

Louisa Asare, MD

Internal Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1184186736

Payments from drug & device makers

$363in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $21.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$64
  • Novo Nordisk$60
  • AstraZeneca$56
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$53
  • Johnson & Johnson$30
  • Dexcom, Inc.$25
  • plus $76 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$363100%

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

$363 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$77,783
Medicare patients
249
Services billed
874

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
OzempicSemaglutide69$79,429
JardianceEmpagliflozin54$56,016
TrulicityDulaglutide46$55,469
EliquisApixaban18$28,429
XareltoRivaroxaban20$21,776
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$21,649
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$15,570
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$11,999
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres14$11,178
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide15$8,864
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog46$5,337
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$5,138
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol11$2,947
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium43$2,939
Levothyroxine Sodium267$2,860

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$60$79,42969 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$56$26,78731 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$30$21,77620 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$19$2,93943 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 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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