RxDoctor Payments Data

Navid Dara, MD

Internal Medicine · Columbus, MSNPI 1245736818

Payments from drug & device makers

$854in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $35.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$248
  • Pfizer$138
  • Johnson & Johnson$96
  • AstraZeneca$95
  • Edwards Lifesciences$81
  • Merck$70
  • plus $126 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$854100%

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

$854 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 846 internal medicine providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$134,229
Medicare patients
559
Services billed
1,949

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
OzempicSemaglutide40$65,504
TrulicityDulaglutide45$56,195
EliquisApixaban40$38,757
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$31,472
MounjaroTirzepatide19$24,020
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$15,694
LinzessLinaclotide15$11,827
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog18$6,162
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog20$3,510
Gabapentin95$1,295
Diclofenac Sodium29$1,151
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog13$1,133
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide56$1,060
Mirtazapine42$1,012
Potassium Chloride51$991

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$138$38,75740 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$16$31,47233 claims
AbbVieLinzess$248$11,82715 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 846 internal medicine providers in Mississippi.

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