RxDoctor Payments Data

Masoud Yazdi, MD

Internal Medicine · Lafayette, LANPI 1477543239

Payments from drug & device makers

$557in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $21.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$125
  • Bayer$80
  • Nxstage Medical, Inc.$73
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$45
  • AstraZeneca$45
  • Novo Nordisk$42
  • plus $148 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$557100%

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

$557 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$102,205
Medicare patients
299
Services billed
1,158

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol136$73,842
Sevelamer Carbonate65$14,421
Calcitriol289$3,011
Calcium Acetate32$2,693
Potassium Chloride122$1,931
Allopurinol306$1,785
Hydralazine Hcl137$1,383
Furosemide280$930
Labetalol Hcl26$887
Nifedipine ErNifedipine33$767
Losartan Potassium107$744
Tamsulosin Hcl52$576
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst14$435
Valsartan24$431
Amlodipine Besylate137$406

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$45$73,842136 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 55th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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