RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Akers, MD

Internal Medicine · Tiffin, OHNPI 1174578645

Payments from drug & device makers

$203in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $20.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$75
  • Novo Nordisk$48
  • Lundbeck LLC$39
  • Amgen$15
  • Novartis$14
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$16581%
  • Education$3919%

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

$203 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$184,417
Medicare patients
874
Services billed
3,232

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
EliquisApixaban584$253,234
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate56$180,696
OzempicSemaglutide145$162,411
TrulicityDulaglutide117$117,209
XareltoRivaroxaban187$79,626
JardianceEmpagliflozin150$73,175
Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate18$66,033
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl36$59,517
MyrbetriqMirabegron173$43,209
PerserisRisperidone12$37,126
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol95$33,608
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog157$29,657
RybelsusSemaglutide14$19,649
Atorvastatin Calcium1,646$18,820
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate52$18,035

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$48$182,060159 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$75$117,209117 claims
NovartisEntresto$14$10,23131 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 50th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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