RxDoctor Payments Data

Raghupathy Varavenkataraman, MD

Internal Medicine · West Seneca, NYNPI 1518949833

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,561in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $85.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk AS$2K
  • AstraZeneca$136
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$121
  • Novo Nordisk$99
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$39
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$30
  • plus $82 from 6 others
$1,751in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $250.19 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novo Nordisk AS$2K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,50459%
  • Food & beverage$1,02840%
  • Education$301%

General payments by program year

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24

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

$2,561 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$40,079
Medicare patients
127
Services billed
550

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin190$275,783
OzempicSemaglutide124$175,125
TrulicityDulaglutide53$120,021
EliquisApixaban77$103,445
RybelsusSemaglutide32$82,172
XareltoRivaroxaban19$28,803
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter21$27,323
MounjaroTirzepatide16$19,408
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab19$16,742
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog27$12,592
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog65$11,342
Atorvastatin Calcium716$10,899
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide16$9,844
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol11$6,994
Levothyroxine Sodium358$6,869

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$30$275,783190 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$99$257,297156 claims
PfizerEliquis$13$103,44577 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere$136$6,99411 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$11$1,75340 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 80th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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