RxDoctor Payments Data

Rodney Ferguson, MD

Family Medicine · Alcoa, TNNPI 1316971203

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,527in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $17.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$345
  • AstraZeneca$233
  • GSK$198
  • Pfizer$193
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$111
  • AbbVie$106
  • plus $341 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,527100%

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

$1,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,380
Medicare patients
153
Services billed
940

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
OzempicSemaglutide33$56,778
EliquisApixaban49$54,126
MounjaroTirzepatide39$49,925
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$38,819
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$13,699
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab11$12,964
Rosuvastatin Calcium298$2,901
Duloxetine Hcl105$2,662
Atorvastatin Calcium333$2,364
Potassium Chloride112$2,021
Losartan Potassium238$1,923
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate73$1,868
Levothyroxine Sodium217$1,828
Megestrol Acetate13$1,661
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$1,635

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$66$56,77833 claims
PfizerEliquis$193$54,12649 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$345$49,92539 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$111$38,81933 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$198$13,69912 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$106$1,46515 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 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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