RxDoctor Payments Data

Ravindraprasad Shekarappa, MD

Internal Medicine · Warner Robins, GANPI 1588606701

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,604in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 728 payments — averaging $17.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • GSK$967
  • Johnson & Johnson$944
  • Bayer$866
  • Pfizer$795
  • plus $6K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$12,10596%
  • Education$2322%
  • Other$2672%

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.

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

$12,604 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$389,100
Medicare patients
1,233
Services billed
4,346

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
EliquisApixaban287$224,471
OzempicSemaglutide146$182,590
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol180$179,509
MounjaroTirzepatide128$145,694
TrulicityDulaglutide58$92,281
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate93$84,182
JardianceEmpagliflozin65$83,691
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter56$61,966
XareltoRivaroxaban90$61,293
KerendiaFinerenone47$49,803
LinzessLinaclotide55$48,676
RybelsusSemaglutide15$34,289
GemtesaVibegron40$32,171
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec41$28,124
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan29$25,855

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, Nurtec Odt, Premarin$795$252,798321 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$595$237,974186 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$1,506$216,878161 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,287$188,705193 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr$700$88,49777 claims
MerckJanuvia$363$84,18293 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Arexvy$967$66,46072 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$944$61,29390 claims
BayerKerendia$866$49,80347 claims
AbbVieLinzess$623$48,67655 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$246$32,17140 claims
NovartisEntresto$173$25,85529 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 95th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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