RxDoctor Payments Data

Maureen Rafferty, MD

Internal Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1043314461

Payments from drug & device makers

$997in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $20.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$252
  • Abbott$149
  • Novartis$93
  • Nevro Corp.$70
  • GSK$69
  • Johnson & Johnson$63
  • plus $301 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$97898%
  • Education$192%

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

$997 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$109,583
Medicare patients
321
Services billed
3,081

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
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab75$75,129
OzempicSemaglutide45$49,056
XareltoRivaroxaban31$44,242
EliquisApixaban29$34,021
MounjaroTirzepatide25$24,479
Praluent PenAlirocumab19$18,129
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$12,929
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium54$4,268
Rosuvastatin Calcium363$3,849
Levothyroxine Sodium281$3,268
Atorvastatin Calcium309$3,249
Omeprazole143$2,124
Esomeprazole Magnesium38$1,912
Ezetimibe52$1,465
Losartan Potassium173$1,442

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$14$49,05645 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$63$44,24231 claims
PfizerEliquis$20$34,02129 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$24$24,47925 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$21$12,92912 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$43$4,26854 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 70th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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