RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Zaetta, MD

Internal Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1114901394

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,662in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $59.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sirtex Medical Inc$364
  • Penumbra, Inc.$168
  • GSK$150
  • Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$136
  • Novo Nordisk$135
  • Pfizer$131
  • plus $579 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,662100%

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

$1,662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$109,346
Medicare patients
453
Services billed
1,093

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
EliquisApixaban98$108,247
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$30,197
XareltoRivaroxaban17$18,016
MyrbetriqMirabegron20$17,597
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$17,367
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab16$16,392
Rosuvastatin Calcium897$10,733
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol36$9,697
Levothyroxine Sodium894$9,365
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter11$7,115
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate18$6,818
Gabapentin221$3,964
Losartan Potassium407$3,843
Omeprazole177$3,520
Testosterone29$3,420

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$131$108,24798 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$88$24,18530 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$150$7,11511 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 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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