RxDoctor Payments Data

Niva Misra Sammons, MD

Internal Medicine · Oak Ridge, TNNPI 1679910137

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,039in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 538 payments — averaging $16.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • GSK$1K
  • AbbVie$966
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$592
  • AstraZeneca$557
  • plus $3K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,999100%
  • Education$390%

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

$9,039 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$178,199
Medicare patients
249
Services billed
5,006

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin78$76,284
OzempicSemaglutide55$70,151
MounjaroTirzepatide42$60,176
EliquisApixaban72$53,145
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter37$26,936
TrulicityDulaglutide27$25,447
XareltoRivaroxaban20$16,058
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf49$16,032
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$14,931
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf52$11,812
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide13$8,645
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate23$6,634
Varenicline Tartrate12$2,710
Levothyroxine Sodium351$2,701
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl70$2,420

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$259$85,62369 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$592$76,28478 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,355$70,15155 claims
PfizerEliquis, Abrysvo$1,206$69,177121 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Shingrix$1,113$38,74989 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$557$21,56535 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$40$16,05820 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$256$8,64513 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$966$1,69236 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 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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