RxDoctor Payments Data

Mariely Castellanos Nouel, MD

Internal Medicine · Hickory, NCNPI 1649506494

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,776in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 629 payments — averaging $15.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Novo Nordisk$929
  • AstraZeneca$713
  • GSK$627
  • Lilly USA, LLC$612
  • Pfizer$555
  • plus $4K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,69899%
  • Education$771%

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

$9,776 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$62,841
Medicare patients
118
Services billed
749

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
MounjaroTirzepatide131$178,764
JardianceEmpagliflozin120$147,934
OzempicSemaglutide73$88,446
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol62$82,885
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate73$75,100
LinzessLinaclotide41$55,868
EliquisApixaban57$48,773
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol30$33,691
KerendiaFinerenone17$31,319
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec30$30,043
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase12$25,624
VraylarCariprazine Hcl15$21,858
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan17$18,541
VoqueznaVonoprazan Fumarate23$14,930
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl15$14,353

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Humulin N$612$180,617145 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$142$147,934120 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$713$116,57692 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$929$88,44673 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr$81$81,29191 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Synthroid$2,065$80,33977 claims
PfizerEliquis$555$48,77357 claims
BayerKerendia$455$31,31917 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$23$25,62412 claims
NovartisEntresto$181$18,54117 claims
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Voquezna$82$14,93023 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$627$10,23012 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 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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