RxDoctor Payments Data

Polly Lebuhn, MD

Internal Medicine · Paducah, KYNPI 1417026949

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,966in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 133 payments — averaging $14.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$346
  • Novo Nordisk$336
  • Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$279
  • Pfizer$181
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$103
  • Dexcom, Inc.$99
  • plus $622 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,95299%
  • Education$141%

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

$1,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$217,182
Medicare patients
486
Services billed
5,132

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
OzempicSemaglutide137$237,556
EliquisApixaban186$164,312
JardianceEmpagliflozin100$88,738
XareltoRivaroxaban61$87,259
TrulicityDulaglutide57$71,479
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec62$57,186
MyrbetriqMirabegron60$42,805
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog58$42,668
MounjaroTirzepatide20$38,882
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter35$38,387
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol25$26,862
NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl14$19,698
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab14$17,506
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab21$14,194
Praluent PenAlirocumab21$13,759

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$336$237,556137 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin, Toviaz$181$176,661215 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$58$110,36177 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Stiolto Respimat$39$94,078111 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$77$42,80560 claims
AbbVieNamzaric, Linzess, Synthroid$96$41,319140 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$55$38,38735 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Dexilant$19$4,00713 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 75th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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