RxDoctor Payments Data

Riaz Rassekh, MD

Family Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1285674770

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,444in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 843 payments — averaging $14.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$952
  • Pfizer$907
  • GSK$824
  • Johnson & Johnson$681
  • plus $5K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$12,36999%
  • Education$761%

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

$12,444 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$154,259
Medicare patients
206
Services billed
7,379

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
MounjaroTirzepatide105$177,629
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol78$95,926
JardianceEmpagliflozin74$81,643
EliquisApixaban78$73,654
XareltoRivaroxaban56$69,808
OzempicSemaglutide49$66,239
RybelsusSemaglutide18$36,920
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate26$35,173
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec35$33,515
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog22$32,321
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl29$29,537
KerendiaFinerenone28$25,284
TrulicityDulaglutide14$25,088
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter31$24,855
LinzessLinaclotide25$24,687

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$952$202,717119 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$1,386$106,519112 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$2,361$103,15967 claims
PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt, Premarin$907$95,221106 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$501$81,64374 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Arexvy, Shingrix, Anoro Ellipta$824$74,917199 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$681$69,80856 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr$324$64,71055 claims
BayerKerendia$640$25,28428 claims
AbbVieLinzess$479$24,68725 claims
AmgenProlia$587$21,08012 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 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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