RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Krakauer, MD

Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1679620470

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,426in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $15.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$534
  • Pfizer$304
  • Amgen$276
  • Lilly USA, LLC$176
  • AstraZeneca$147
  • GSK$141
  • plus $848 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,426100%

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

$2,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$66,438
Medicare patients
248
Services billed
1,926

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
EliquisApixaban53$63,485
OzempicSemaglutide29$42,982
XareltoRivaroxaban28$42,615
JardianceEmpagliflozin32$40,977
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol28$34,659
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter38$30,852
MounjaroTirzepatide30$29,520
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl20$28,672
TrulicityDulaglutide15$28,350
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr47$24,460
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl15$17,232
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$16,982
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab26$15,003
MyrbetriqMirabegron15$14,684
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol15$8,847

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$141$64,159100 claims
PfizerEliquis$304$63,48553 claims
MerckJanumet Xr, Janumet, Januvia$97$62,88646 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$176$57,87045 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$534$42,98229 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$70$42,61528 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$57$40,97732 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$147$37,39140 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$138$2,89135 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 75th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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