RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Nelson, MD

Internal Medicine · Athens, GANPI 1821026295

Payments from drug & device makers

$973in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $17.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$147
  • Lilly USA, LLC$138
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$125
  • AstraZeneca$119
  • Exact Sciences$102
  • Sobi, Inc$75
  • plus $267 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$973100%

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

$973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$15,555
Medicare patients
42
Services billed
182

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
MounjaroTirzepatide61$79,493
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol25$18,946
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate14$2,953
Atorvastatin Calcium94$977
Metoprolol Succinate65$905
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate34$797
Colchicine13$719
Gabapentin30$648
Levothyroxine Sodium51$593
Rosuvastatin Calcium26$505
Ipratropium Bromide12$466
Lisinopril59$393
Metformin Hcl53$329
Allopurinol26$316
Potassium Chloride23$305

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$138$79,49361 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$119$18,94625 claims
GSKArnuity Ellipta$62$2,95314 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 65th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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