RxDoctor Payments Data

Nicolas van Es, MD

Family Medicine · Brandon, SDNPI 1285620120

Payments from drug & device makers

$364in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $15.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$67
  • Grifols USA, LLC$53
  • Novo Nordisk$51
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$39
  • Amgen$39
  • Lilly USA, LLC$31
  • plus $84 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$35196%
  • Education$144%

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

$364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 408 family medicine providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$33,840
Medicare patients
209
Services billed
557

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
OzempicSemaglutide42$45,968
JardianceEmpagliflozin48$39,804
EliquisApixaban53$34,289
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter39$27,868
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl29$21,175
TrulicityDulaglutide20$19,605
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec31$17,665
MounjaroTirzepatide15$14,731
XareltoRivaroxaban16$12,761
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$10,466
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$7,204
Gabapentin173$3,343
Atorvastatin Calcium483$3,076
Autoshield Duo Pen NeedlePen Needle,dual Safety,diabetc31$3,075
Divalproex Sodium16$2,846

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$51$45,96842 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$31$34,33635 claims
PfizerEliquis$11$34,28953 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia$67$28,37941 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$12$10,46619 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 408 family medicine providers in South Dakota.

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