RxDoctor Payments Data

Naeem Ahmed, MD

Internal Medicine · Bay City, MINPI 1720052020

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,587in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 325 payments — averaging $17.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$407
  • Amgen$322
  • Novartis$311
  • Pfizer$305
  • Merck$282
  • Novo Nordisk$257
  • plus $4K from 46 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,587100%

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

$5,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$237,426
Medicare patients
514
Services billed
2,833

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
EliquisApixaban663$276,331
TrulicityDulaglutide73$89,362
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter74$67,272
XareltoRivaroxaban91$61,399
OzempicSemaglutide40$55,344
MounjaroTirzepatide37$53,064
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate51$50,301
JardianceEmpagliflozin107$48,076
XifaxanRifaximin18$38,011
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan77$37,825
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol75$35,011
AuvelityDextromethorphan Hbr/Bupropion56$31,394
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog194$27,267
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine29$22,720
Sevelamer Carbonate43$17,154

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
PfizerEliquis$305$276,331663 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$210$142,425110 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$216$91,312118 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr, Lagevrio (Eua)$282$75,31976 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$235$61,39991 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Fiasp$257$60,96658 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta, Symbicort$200$56,364136 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$161$48,076107 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$98$38,01118 claims
NovartisEntresto$311$37,82577 claims
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.Auvelity$42$31,39456 claims
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta$97$22,72029 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 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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