RxDoctor Payments Data

Philip Battle, MD

Internal Medicine · Asheville, NCNPI 1124012695

Payments from drug & device makers

$492in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $15.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$73
  • Amgen$71
  • Novo Nordisk$63
  • Pfizer$45
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$44
  • Almatica Pharma LLC$34
  • plus $161 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$492100%

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

$492 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$80,375
Medicare patients
216
Services billed
1,426

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
EliquisApixaban154$150,323
JardianceEmpagliflozin99$101,889
ProcritEpoetin Alfa15$84,333
OzempicSemaglutide29$36,487
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab45$31,830
RybelsusSemaglutide16$17,007
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate20$10,954
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf22$4,818
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium38$3,651
Verapamil SrVerapamil Hcl18$3,570
Rosuvastatin Calcium220$3,152
Atorvastatin Calcium263$2,817
Losartan Potassium194$2,342
Levothyroxine Sodium240$2,262
Gabapentin106$2,033

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$45$150,323154 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$44$101,88999 claims
Johnson & JohnsonProcrit$33$84,33315 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$63$53,49445 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$26$10,95420 claims
GSKShingrix$15$4,81822 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$32$3,65138 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 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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