RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Backus, MD

Internal Medicine · Bend, ORNPI 1588693105

Payments from drug & device makers

$231in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $28.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$87
  • Bayer$79
  • Novo Nordisk$18
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$17
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$17
  • Medtronic$13

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$231100%

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

$231 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,363 internal medicine providers in Oregon.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$132,337
Medicare patients
301
Services billed
2,221

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
EliquisApixaban139$185,726
JardianceEmpagliflozin115$140,557
OzempicSemaglutide41$54,886
TrulicityDulaglutide33$45,764
MounjaroTirzepatide19$21,957
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$14,829
Mesalamine16$12,417
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$10,701
Atorvastatin Calcium701$9,876
Rosuvastatin Calcium307$7,236
Losartan Potassium407$5,727
Estradiol29$4,673
Ezetimibe68$3,518
Metoprolol Succinate172$3,169
Omeprazole203$2,955

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$17$140,557115 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$18$54,88641 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 80th percentile of 1,363 internal medicine providers in Oregon.

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