RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Gaesser, MD

Internal Medicine · Poughkeepsie, NYNPI 1568461713

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,072in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 239 payments — averaging $21.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • GSK$846
  • Lilly USA, LLC$406
  • Novo Nordisk$369
  • Johnson & Johnson$182
  • Harmony Biosciences LLC$140
  • plus $2K from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,072100%

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

$5,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$143,935
Medicare patients
233
Services billed
4,322

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
OzempicSemaglutide31$56,053
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate20$25,244
EliquisApixaban19$17,718
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec12$8,138
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$7,970
Colesevelam Hcl15$7,597
Atorvastatin Calcium345$3,752
Rosuvastatin Calcium252$3,641
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium34$3,525
Olmesartan-Amlodipine-HctzOlmesartan/Amlodipin/Hcthiazid27$2,894
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$2,796
Ezetimibe41$2,252
Omeprazole119$1,900
Amlodipine-OlmesartanAmlodipine Bes/Olmesartan Med32$1,823
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide37$1,561

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$369$56,05331 claims
MerckJanuvia$13$25,24420 claims
PfizerEliquis$78$17,71819 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$846$7,97012 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$133$3,52534 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$38$1,410184 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$33$90112 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 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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