RxDoctor Payments Data

Rex Appenfeller, MD

Internal Medicine · Lincoln, RINPI 1710983523

Payments from drug & device makers

$351in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $16.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$108
  • Lilly USA, LLC$40
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$37
  • Novo Nordisk$37
  • Pfizer$37
  • Johnson & Johnson$23
  • plus $68 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$351100%

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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25

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

$351 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$59,938
Medicare patients
227
Services billed
1,588

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
OzempicSemaglutide92$127,184
EliquisApixaban87$95,636
JardianceEmpagliflozin53$75,334
TrulicityDulaglutide29$39,327
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter35$33,963
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate16$14,416
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate20$10,416
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$9,896
Atorvastatin Calcium625$7,173
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate16$6,920
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr16$5,702
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol27$5,631
Qvar RedihalerBeclomethasone Dipropionate18$5,414
Omeprazole372$4,988
Glipizide-MetforminGlipizide/Metformin Hcl49$4,129

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$37$127,18492 claims
PfizerEliquis$37$95,63687 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$37$75,33453 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$40$39,32729 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$13$3,48615 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 65th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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