RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Ishak, MD

Internal Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1295727790

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,047in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $18.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$179
  • Novo Nordisk$158
  • Johnson & Johnson$137
  • AstraZeneca$106
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$88
  • Amgen$78
  • plus $300 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,047100%

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

$1,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$157,000
Medicare patients
436
Services billed
1,949

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
OzempicSemaglutide145$151,609
EliquisApixaban77$102,099
MounjaroTirzepatide59$69,153
JardianceEmpagliflozin39$56,684
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol56$55,621
TrulicityDulaglutide26$34,461
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$19,907
XareltoRivaroxaban14$19,669
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol15$9,168
Rosuvastatin Calcium430$7,625
Atorvastatin Calcium467$5,704
Levothyroxine Sodium185$3,072
Olmesartan Medoxomil77$2,991
Duloxetine Hcl139$2,831
Losartan Potassium228$2,696

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$158$151,609145 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$179$103,61485 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$106$64,78971 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$88$56,68439 claims
NovartisEntresto$48$19,90714 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$137$19,66914 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$24$1,46715 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 65th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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