RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Sapp, MD

Internal Medicine · Spencer, TNNPI 1982705836

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,042in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $18.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$330
  • AstraZeneca$181
  • Lilly USA, LLC$175
  • Pfizer$52
  • Bayer$47
  • Dexcom, Inc.$43
  • plus $214 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,042100%

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

$1,042 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$41,986
Medicare patients
77
Services billed
448

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
OzempicSemaglutide134$151,576
EliquisApixaban307$140,405
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol270$136,009
XareltoRivaroxaban97$48,243
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate47$25,295
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter31$23,954
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine52$20,413
LinzessLinaclotide33$19,176
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan36$12,770
GemtesaVibegron104$12,425
Potassium Chloride874$12,155
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen594$10,456
Divalproex Sodium235$9,786
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf30$9,428
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol15$8,613

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$330$151,576134 claims
PfizerEliquis, Abrysvo$52$149,833337 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$181$136,009270 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$18$48,24397 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$23$22,14985 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$29$3,00022 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 70th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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