RxDoctor Payments Data

Russell Barr, MD

Internal Medicine · Decatur, ALNPI 1427140995

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,289in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $30.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$483
  • AstraZeneca$323
  • Pfizer$105
  • Novartis$89
  • Merck$74
  • Lilly USA, LLC$60
  • plus $155 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$151%
  • Food & beverage$1,27499%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novo Nordisk10$483
AstraZeneca8$323
Pfizer5$105
Novartis6$89
Merck2$74
Lilly USA, LLC3$60
Amgen2$58
Eisai Inc.1$21
Boehringer Ingelheim1$17
Philips North America LLC1$15
Mckesson Medical-surgical, Inc.1$15
AbbVie1$14
GSK1$14

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$1,289 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$61,228
Medicare patients
340
Services billed
880

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
XareltoRivaroxaban110$85,426
EliquisApixaban113$82,521
MounjaroTirzepatide64$64,635
JardianceEmpagliflozin59$56,131
OzempicSemaglutide45$43,867
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$20,835
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$17,163
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl15$16,660
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter15$15,966
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$14,913
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate29$14,722
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol11$7,140
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl12$6,815
Atorvastatin Calcium464$6,133
AirsupraAlbuterol Sulfate/Budesonide11$5,259

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy, Combivent Respimat$17$87,513103 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$105$84,882125 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$60$64,63564 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$483$43,86745 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Airsupra$323$29,56349 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr$74$21,72830 claims
NovartisEntresto$89$20,83522 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$14$15,96615 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$14$2,76730 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 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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