RxDoctor Payments Data

Peter Katsaros, MD

Internal Medicine · Norton, OHNPI 1144203910

Payments from drug & device makers

$697in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $16.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$186
  • Pfizer$129
  • Novo Nordisk$69
  • Abbott$56
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$37
  • Novartis$33
  • plus $186 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$697100%

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

$697 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$120,145
Medicare patients
224
Services billed
1,256

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
EliquisApixaban336$176,482
OzempicSemaglutide30$46,523
XareltoRivaroxaban47$44,020
JardianceEmpagliflozin41$41,214
TradjentaLinagliptin69$37,791
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate38$35,127
MyrbetriqMirabegron66$35,075
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter45$34,174
OtezlaApremilast12$29,402
Humulin R U-500 KwikpenInsulin Regular, Human27$23,102
MounjaroTirzepatide13$13,645
TrulicityDulaglutide23$11,409
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan37$10,646
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf32$10,142
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium23$9,252

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, Abrysvo$129$186,624368 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$69$46,52330 claims
MerckJanuvia, Dulera$29$40,02650 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$37$35,07566 claims
AmgenOtezla, Corlanor$30$33,25139 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$19$25,05436 claims
NovartisEntresto$33$10,64637 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 70th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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