RxDoctor Payments Data

Mohammad Afzal, MD

Internal Medicine · Somerset, KYNPI 1245329069

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,445in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 719 payments — averaging $13.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$948
  • Lilly USA, LLC$752
  • GSK$736
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$560
  • plus $4K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,35499%
  • Education$901%

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

$9,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$133,683
Medicare patients
283
Services billed
2,270

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
EliquisApixaban424$256,982
JardianceEmpagliflozin323$223,011
OzempicSemaglutide174$203,689
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol235$200,323
MounjaroTirzepatide118$142,747
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter123$110,682
LinzessLinaclotide124$96,996
XareltoRivaroxaban102$93,095
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept12$72,859
TrulicityDulaglutide61$68,521
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol76$68,422
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate85$51,943
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan57$48,574
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol84$43,258
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl99$42,541

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Stiolto Respimat, Tradjenta, Spiriva Respimat, Combivent Respimat$508$339,414477 claims
PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt$1,137$272,790440 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,164$268,745311 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$752$211,267179 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$736$205,694297 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$414$203,689174 claims
AbbVieLinzess$159$96,996124 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$262$93,095102 claims
MerckJanuvia$307$51,94385 claims
NovartisEntresto$230$48,57457 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$112$29,29252 claims
BayerKerendia$350$23,06523 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 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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