RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Mikkelson, MD

Family Medicine · Bluffton, SCNPI 1972561496

Payments from drug & device makers

$997in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $19.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$407
  • Pfizer$68
  • Bayer$52
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$44
  • AbbVie$42
  • Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC$41
  • plus $343 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$97297%
  • Education$253%

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

$997 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$169,131
Medicare patients
313
Services billed
2,142

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
OzempicSemaglutide27$42,270
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$14,425
EliquisApixaban13$14,091
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$8,254
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr12$5,339
Rosuvastatin Calcium251$3,779
Ezetimibe52$1,054
Pravastatin Sodium32$945
Atorvastatin Calcium69$760
Tamsulosin Hcl33$734
Levothyroxine Sodium57$657
Gabapentin37$632
Metformin Hcl80$536
Losartan Potassium55$526
Fluticasone Propionate23$509

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$36$42,27027 claims
PfizerEliquis$68$14,09113 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 60th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.

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