RxDoctor Payments Data

Martha Combs-Woolum, MD

Internal Medicine · Pineville, KYNPI 1033121017

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,743in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 207 payments — averaging $18.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$391
  • Amgen$332
  • Johnson & Johnson$331
  • Novo Nordisk$308
  • Merck$292
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$175
  • plus $2K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,55795%
  • Education$1865%

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

$3,743 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$23,263
Medicare patients
214
Services billed
621

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
EliquisApixaban268$267,925
MounjaroTirzepatide165$213,755
OzempicSemaglutide171$176,942
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate136$132,360
XareltoRivaroxaban90$105,204
KerendiaFinerenone70$82,410
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol89$78,267
LinzessLinaclotide87$75,649
JardianceEmpagliflozin63$65,304
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan49$57,489
TrulicityDulaglutide37$45,480
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide58$41,134
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter40$40,186
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol42$37,005
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab55$35,325

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, Premarin$135$286,088307 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$116$259,235202 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$308$176,942171 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$292$145,638149 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$141$126,725172 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$331$105,20490 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Synthroid$391$104,883314 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat$24$85,345102 claims
BayerKerendia$134$82,41070 claims
NovartisEntresto$109$57,48949 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$82$55,67872 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$93$41,13458 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 85th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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