RxDoctor Payments Data

Rashmi Sharma, MD

Internal Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1083842678

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,575in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $15.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$430
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$318
  • Novo Nordisk$210
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$86
  • Novartis$56
  • Corcept Therapeutics$50
  • plus $425 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,568100%
  • Education$70%

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

$1,575 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,950
Medicare patients
76
Services billed
319

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
OzempicSemaglutide12$13,525
EliquisApixaban12$10,906
TrulicityDulaglutide12$10,591
Mirtazapine12$416
Atorvastatin Calcium44$292
Rosuvastatin Calcium28$247
Fluoxetine Hcl18$238
Lisinopril22$227
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl18$209
Pantoprazole Sodium16$205
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl13$199
Escitalopram Oxalate17$129
Losartan Potassium32$117
Clonazepam13$116
Metformin Hcl18$112

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$210$13,52512 claims
PfizerEliquis$38$10,90612 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$46$10,59112 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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