RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Defranco

Internal Medicine · Wayne, NJNPI 1952453839

Payments from drug & device makers

$386in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $14.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$58
  • AbbVie$58
  • Smith+Nephew$43
  • Novo Nordisk$32
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$28
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$28
  • plus $138 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$386100%

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

19
20
22

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

$386 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$659,127
Medicare patients
561
Services billed
5,830

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
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.73$27,067
EliquisApixaban33$24,539
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol17$7,474
XareltoRivaroxaban25$7,070
Mupirocin194$3,999
Ammonium Lactate90$2,545
Autoshield Duo Pen NeedlePen Needle,dual Safety,diabetc22$2,226
Atorvastatin Calcium151$1,785
Gabapentin47$1,271
Nystatin52$1,148
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$1,087
Duloxetine Hcl19$982
Metoprolol Succinate32$843
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$806
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate46$790

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
Smith+NephewSantyl$43$27,06773 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$14$7,07025 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$58$73014 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$28$70711 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 50th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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