RxDoctor Payments Data

Marie Lorraine Cesa

Internal Medicine · Graniteville, SCNPI 1013495670

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,314in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $19.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$289
  • Novo Nordisk$263
  • AstraZeneca$192
  • Lilly USA, LLC$130
  • Pfizer$67
  • Amgen$58
  • plus $315 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,314100%

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

$1,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$59,401
Medicare patients
175
Services billed
696

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
OzempicSemaglutide68$92,734
MounjaroTirzepatide39$66,093
JardianceEmpagliflozin50$54,030
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter45$38,455
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol31$37,147
EliquisApixaban22$35,469
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate34$19,354
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan13$12,047
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec12$11,164
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol15$10,796
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$6,822
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog26$4,057
Duloxetine Hcl103$3,910
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$3,342
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate124$3,242

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$263$92,73468 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$130$66,09339 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$39$54,03050 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$192$51,28560 claims
PfizerEliquis$67$35,46922 claims
MerckJanuvia$16$19,35434 claims
NovartisEntresto$19$12,04713 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$289$1,15929 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 70th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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