RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Skees, MD

Family Medicine · Norfolk, VANPI 1861571499

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,927in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 846 payments — averaging $16.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$3K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$675
  • GSK$656
  • plus $6K from 54 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13,78099%
  • Education$1471%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie(2 entities)188$2,646
AstraZeneca97$1,875
Pfizer77$1,245
Novo Nordisk67$1,066
Lilly USA, LLC47$675
GSK45$656
Abbott26$526
Amarin Pharma, Inc.28$469
Amgen26$418
Boehringer Ingelheim27$390
Astellas Pharma US Inc14$346
Merck18$288
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.16$246
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.12$200
Bausch Health US, LLC7$177
Eisai Inc.8$173
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC12$167
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.8$151
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.8$146
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.7$132
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.7$127
Exact Sciences7$126
Novartis7$114
Dexcom, Inc.6$107
Lundbeck LLC4$101
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.8$100
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.4$79
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)4$78
Johnson & Johnson3$73
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc3$60
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC3$58
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.4$54
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.2$53
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.3$52
Gilead2$43
Bayer2$36
Shire North American Group Inc2$34
Boston Scientific2$32
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA2$32
Medtronic1$31
IBSA Pharma Inc.2$30
Antares Pharma, Inc.2$28
TMS Neurohealth Centers Inc.1$28
Nevro Corp.1$26
Mylan Specialty L.p.2$24
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.2$23
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.1$23
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.1$22
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.1$22
Shield Therapeutics Inc1$22
C2n Diagnostics, LLC1$21
Corium, LLC1$20
Cranial Technologies, Inc1$19
Scynexis, Inc.1$19
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$19
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC1$18
Viatris Specialty LLC1$18
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.1$17
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc1$17
Almatica Pharma LLC1$16

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

$13,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,553 family medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$202,044
Medicare patients
469
Services billed
2,401

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
EliquisApixaban86$87,187
OzempicSemaglutide61$74,110
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol68$55,094
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$45,966
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate30$29,414
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter25$22,936
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe14$10,341
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol21$8,638
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$6,959
Atorvastatin Calcium609$5,358
Rosuvastatin Calcium417$5,172
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe12$4,787
Metoprolol Succinate214$3,740
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol30$3,520
Tamsulosin Hcl161$3,354

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
PfizerEliquis$1,245$87,18786 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,066$74,11061 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,875$55,09468 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$390$45,96645 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$656$31,57446 claims
MerckJanuvia$288$29,41430 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$54$4,78712 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$2,646$2,40337 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 2,553 family medicine providers in Virginia.

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