RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Scalici, MD

Internal Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1871523381

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,089in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 997 payments — averaging $15.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Bayer$768
  • plus $8K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$15,061100%
  • Education$290%

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

$15,089 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$91,836
Medicare patients
149
Services billed
3,271

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
EliquisApixaban98$70,948
OzempicSemaglutide58$62,214
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol40$35,531
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter51$35,193
MyrbetriqMirabegron49$34,285
MounjaroTirzepatide24$33,237
LinzessLinaclotide24$18,526
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$17,811
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$16,222
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase17$14,977
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide31$14,529
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$13,343
Icosapent Ethyl39$11,264
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate24$10,752
XareltoRivaroxaban13$10,121

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
PfizerEliquis, Prempro$1,420$73,662110 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,053$62,21458 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$1,314$38,77553 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$634$35,19351 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$443$34,28549 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$273$34,03335 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$1,202$33,23724 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Trijardy Xr$465$20,48429 claims
AbbVieLinzess$1,367$18,52624 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$716$14,52931 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$16$10,75224 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$614$10,12113 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 95th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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