RxDoctor Payments Data

Richard Akoto, MD

Family Medicine · Takoma Park, MDNPI 1548365927

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,397in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 131 payments — averaging $18.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$667
  • Grifols USA, LLC$516
  • Novo Nordisk$390
  • AstraZeneca$195
  • Gilead$138
  • Corium, LLC$87
  • plus $404 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,389100%
  • Education$80%

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

$2,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$40,229
Medicare patients
109
Services billed
424

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
OzempicSemaglutide44$54,238
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$23,305
LinzessLinaclotide32$22,500
EliquisApixaban20$18,096
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$6,314
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart14$3,230
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$1,489
Nifedipine ErNifedipine21$1,287
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate46$1,273
Rosuvastatin Calcium45$1,125
Pregabalin35$1,055
Diclofenac Sodium25$766
Losartan Potassium111$679
Omeprazole56$613
Gabapentin37$584

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$390$54,23844 claims
AbbVieLinzess$70$22,50032 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 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.

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