RxDoctor Payments Data

Ruba Nicola, MD

Family Medicine · Irwin, PANPI 1760862171

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,371in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 542 payments — averaging $15.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$784
  • Pfizer$756
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$695
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$465
  • plus $3K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,371100%

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

$8,371 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,093
Medicare patients
121
Services billed
253

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
OzempicSemaglutide69$76,857
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter30$22,354
EliquisApixaban24$20,549
XareltoRivaroxaban17$20,493
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$12,199
Insulin Aspart FlexpenInsulin Aspart11$5,357
Levothyroxine Sodium158$1,820
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$1,569
Memantine Hcl21$1,514
Atorvastatin Calcium143$1,445
Lisinopril151$1,421
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium13$1,390
Metoprolol Succinate61$868
Potassium Chloride53$849
Pantoprazole Sodium75$647

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$1,241$76,85769 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$253$22,35430 claims
PfizerEliquis$756$20,54924 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$237$20,49317 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$162$12,19913 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,178$1,39013 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 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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