RxDoctor Payments Data

Olawumi Ayo Akatue, MD

Internal Medicine · Smyrna, TNNPI 1831274117

Payments from drug & device makers

$764in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $15.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$150
  • Lilly USA, LLC$112
  • AstraZeneca$96
  • Amgen$84
  • GSK$54
  • Exact Sciences$45
  • plus $223 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$764100%

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

$764 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$23,160
Medicare patients
59
Services billed
325

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$46,662
TrulicityDulaglutide35$43,201
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$29,155
LinzessLinaclotide41$24,169
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$14,966
PristiqDesvenlafaxine Succinate11$14,780
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$13,952
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl12$7,433
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide13$6,520
Fluticasone Propionate213$6,081
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate21$4,955
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$4,261
Atorvastatin Calcium290$3,538
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol21$3,331
Atropine Sulfate18$3,154

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$150$46,66240 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$112$43,20135 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$18$35,67431 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$96$19,92136 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$54$4,26111 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 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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