RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Piekarsky, MD

Internal Medicine · New Britain, CTNPI 1558355792

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,143in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 606 payments — averaging $20.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$1K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Pfizer$998
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$962
  • AbbVie$821
  • Novo Nordisk$803
  • plus $6K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$12,116100%
  • Education$270%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$12,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$91,179
Medicare patients
251
Services billed
968

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
EliquisApixaban150$164,374
JardianceEmpagliflozin104$142,230
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate70$107,467
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol68$91,075
OzempicSemaglutide69$73,424
XareltoRivaroxaban26$38,232
TrulicityDulaglutide29$33,336
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter44$31,454
TradjentaLinagliptin26$25,834
RybelsusSemaglutide12$21,297
MyrbetriqMirabegron25$19,740
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide28$12,084
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog13$11,477
Atorvastatin Calcium1,137$9,905
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium73$8,232

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, Tradjenta$962$168,064130 claims
PfizerEliquis$998$164,374150 claims
MerckJanuvia$323$107,46770 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$803$94,72281 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,221$91,07568 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$1,249$49,14684 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$95$38,23226 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$715$33,33629 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$232$19,74025 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$821$8,23273 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 95th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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