RxDoctor Payments Data

Milene Argo, MD

Internal Medicine · Athens, GANPI 1255336848

Payments from drug & device makers

$298in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $21.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$141
  • Corcept Therapeutics$43
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$27
  • Medtronic$20
  • Novo Nordisk$19
  • IBSA Pharma Inc.$18
  • plus $29 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$298100%

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

19
24
25

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

$298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$94,483
Medicare patients
176
Services billed
1,371

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
OzempicSemaglutide53$68,307
EliquisApixaban38$42,819
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$30,257
MounjaroTirzepatide26$27,278
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$24,563
XareltoRivaroxaban11$18,089
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec30$15,802
MyrbetriqMirabegron17$12,745
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate25$5,763
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol13$4,139
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog13$3,505
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium33$3,224
Gabapentin164$3,025
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil11$2,771
Atorvastatin Calcium351$2,688

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$19$68,30753 claims
PfizerEliquis$16$42,81938 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$27$12,74517 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 45th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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