RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Benedict, MD

Internal Medicine · Richland, WANPI 1639134943

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,497in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $17.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$671
  • GSK$222
  • Pfizer$132
  • Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$99
  • Amgen$91
  • Johnson & Johnson$55
  • plus $227 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,497100%

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

$1,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,038 internal medicine providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$83,019
Medicare patients
284
Services billed
7,352

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
OzempicSemaglutide90$99,172
MounjaroTirzepatide26$33,912
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol22$21,871
EliquisApixaban22$19,455
TradjentaLinagliptin29$18,761
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab12$6,781
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$6,526
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated17$4,514
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol14$3,387
Atorvastatin Calcium353$2,548
Estradiol20$2,234
Gabapentin89$1,845
Levothyroxine Sodium227$1,748
Tamsulosin Hcl83$1,705
Duloxetine Hcl90$1,642

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$26$99,17290 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$132$23,96939 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$12$21,87122 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta$24$18,76129 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$222$6,52616 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$671$1,17728 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 90th percentile of 2,038 internal medicine providers in Washington.

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