RxDoctor Payments Data

Rima Desai, MD

Internal Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1003185679

Payments from drug & device makers

$390in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $17.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$98
  • AstraZeneca$64
  • Pfizer$59
  • Lilly USA, LLC$48
  • Amgen$25
  • Philips North America LLC$20
  • plus $76 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$390100%

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

$390 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$18,905
Medicare patients
38
Services billed
287

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
OzempicSemaglutide34$31,299
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$22,358
Atorvastatin Calcium174$853
Lisinopril178$805
Levothyroxine Sodium91$793
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate14$778
Nebivolol Hcl13$519
Rosuvastatin Calcium61$409
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate21$407
Metformin Hcl72$390
Fluticasone Propionate34$347
Amlodipine Besylate114$332
Pantoprazole Sodium39$322
Metoprolol Tartrate64$303
Omeprazole75$278

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$16$31,29934 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 60th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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