RxDoctor Payments Data

Raghu Katuru, MD

Family Medicine · Smithfield, NCNPI 1316970908

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,551in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 379 payments — averaging $14.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$896
  • GSK$491
  • Novo Nordisk$484
  • AstraZeneca$434
  • Novartis$322
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$303
  • plus $3K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,36697%
  • Education$1853%

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

$5,551 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$184,463
Medicare patients
331
Services billed
4,357

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
MounjaroTirzepatide91$132,053
OzempicSemaglutide100$113,959
EliquisApixaban112$93,068
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter92$69,622
JardianceEmpagliflozin53$54,732
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate53$46,034
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog42$39,163
KerendiaFinerenone39$29,409
XareltoRivaroxaban33$27,624
MyrbetriqMirabegron45$26,581
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl24$25,835
LinzessLinaclotide30$25,058
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol22$22,424
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol36$21,603
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf94$20,921

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$230$147,332107 claims
PfizerEliquis, Abrysvo, Paxlovid$234$116,500193 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$484$113,959100 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Shingrix, Arexvy, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$491$104,653227 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$110$80,05692 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$157$54,73253 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Synthroid$896$48,172146 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Farxiga$434$44,02858 claims
BayerKerendia$89$29,40939 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$23$27,62433 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$201$26,58145 claims
NovartisEntresto$322$9,34713 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 90th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.

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