RxDoctor Payments Data

Richard Pigg, MD

Family Medicine · Hixson, TNNPI 1801154901

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,888in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 774 payments — averaging $16.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$3K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$769
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$743
  • AbbVie$702
  • plus $6K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$12,865100%
  • Education$230%

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

$12,888 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$111,664
Medicare patients
228
Services billed
3,023

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
EliquisApixaban102$91,041
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter74$58,521
OzempicSemaglutide30$40,691
JardianceEmpagliflozin46$32,230
RybelsusSemaglutide12$28,308
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec26$20,770
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$19,063
TrulicityDulaglutide21$18,998
XareltoRivaroxaban21$17,705
MounjaroTirzepatide11$15,013
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol20$13,976
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog25$11,983
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab12$11,433
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$10,654
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol13$9,764

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$1,031$91,041102 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$564$80,594112 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$2,524$68,99942 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy$743$35,66058 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$769$34,01132 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,482$28,82731 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$108$17,70521 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$261$16,01726 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$210$9,04211 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$702$2,82635 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 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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