RxDoctor Payments Data

Nina Paletta, MD

Internal Medicine · Savannah, GANPI 1376048959

Payments from drug & device makers

$970in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $17.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$137
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$103
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$85
  • Lilly USA, LLC$82
  • AbbVie$81
  • Amgen$79
  • plus $403 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$970100%

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

$970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$84,521
Medicare patients
237
Services billed
777

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin37$41,133
EliquisApixaban31$37,883
OzempicSemaglutide31$34,292
MounjaroTirzepatide29$28,652
RybelsusSemaglutide17$17,409
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$14,098
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$13,695
Zolpidem Tartrate16$2,502
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium26$2,197
Losartan Potassium201$1,599
Atorvastatin Calcium179$1,431
Ezetimibe36$1,382
Rosuvastatin Calcium124$1,366
Levothyroxine Sodium108$1,065
Amlodipine Besylate184$894

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, Rybelsus$137$51,70048 claims
PfizerEliquis$36$37,88331 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$82$28,65229 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$75$14,09819 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$81$2,19726 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 65th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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