RxDoctor Payments Data

Luis Lopez la Rosa, MD

Internal Medicine · Smithfield, RINPI 1104434455

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,377in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 207 payments — averaging $21.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$666
  • Lilly USA, LLC$512
  • Exact Sciences$477
  • Novo Nordisk$457
  • AbbVie$403
  • Pfizer$395
  • plus $1K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,357100%
  • Education$200%

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

$4,377 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,230
Medicare patients
107
Services billed
258

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
EliquisApixaban23$13,739
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide23$7,586
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter11$6,981
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$2,860
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate41$1,125
Atorvastatin Calcium67$897
Ezetimibe21$769
Omeprazole77$742
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen31$646
Colchicine15$556
Losartan Potassium37$544
Gabapentin31$428
Duloxetine Hcl14$391
Levothyroxine Sodium38$384
Amlodipine Besylate74$379

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
GSKIncruse Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta$321$14,56634 claims
PfizerEliquis$395$13,73923 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 90th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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