RxDoctor Payments Data

Mazhar Lakho, MD

Internal Medicine · Fairview Heights, ILNPI 1811997380

Payments from drug & device makers

$646in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $16.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$276
  • Abbott$63
  • Novartis$58
  • AbbVie$33
  • Johnson & Johnson$26
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$25
  • plus $165 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$646100%

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

$646 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$35,931
Medicare patients
66
Services billed
428

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
OzempicSemaglutide48$68,134
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate36$38,783
EliquisApixaban27$19,737
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$16,197
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$8,237
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol11$7,044
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog28$3,173
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate86$2,787
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen111$2,072
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen65$1,823
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$1,789
Levothyroxine Sodium123$1,330
Gabapentin71$1,214
Rosuvastatin Calcium65$1,048
Metoprolol Succinate70$954

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$276$68,13448 claims
PfizerEliquis$21$19,73727 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$19$16,19712 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$25$1,78911 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$33$63115 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 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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