RxDoctor Payments Data

Riddhi Merchant, MD

Family Medicine · McDonough, GANPI 1588827513

Payments from drug & device makers

$111in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $15.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$33
  • Lilly USA, LLC$30
  • CSL Behring$20
  • Bayer$15
  • Novo Nordisk$13

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9182%
  • Education$2018%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie2$33
Lilly USA, LLC2$30
CSL Behring1$20
Bayer1$15
Novo Nordisk1$13

How this compares

$111 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$244,594
Medicare patients
437
Services billed
6,220

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
OzempicSemaglutide19$18,030
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$16,072
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$11,553
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate34$592
Rosuvastatin Calcium25$333
Atorvastatin Calcium53$322
Tamsulosin Hcl13$243
Gabapentin17$235
Fluticasone Propionate32$221
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst23$220
Diclofenac Sodium13$213
Carvedilol15$199
Amlodipine Besylate56$195
Levothyroxine Sodium28$164
Alprazolam18$146

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$13$18,03019 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 20th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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