RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Rice, MD

Internal Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1588638019

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,765in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 455 payments — averaging $17.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$963
  • AbbVie$729
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$545
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$402
  • GSK$360
  • plus $4K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,66699%
  • Education$991%

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

$7,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$34,124
Medicare patients
148
Services billed
630

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
EliquisApixaban105$100,799
OzempicSemaglutide61$74,824
JardianceEmpagliflozin53$52,251
XareltoRivaroxaban55$49,775
VraylarCariprazine Hcl31$45,898
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter50$35,827
LinzessLinaclotide43$26,314
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate28$22,523
MyrbetriqMirabegron24$21,314
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec32$21,045
UbrelvyUbrogepant21$19,810
MounjaroTirzepatide14$16,407
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl22$13,415
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan18$11,407
Aripiprazole36$10,712

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$1,023$100,799105 claims
AbbVieVraylar, Linzess, Ubrelvy, Synthroid$729$94,808119 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$963$74,82461 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat$13$59,45268 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$44$49,77555 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr, Janumet$192$45,42064 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$360$35,82750 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Breztri Aerosphere$222$22,24248 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$351$21,31424 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$173$16,40714 claims
NovartisEntresto$220$11,40718 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 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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