RxDoctor Payments Data

Ruta Rimkiene, MD

Family Medicine · Pawleys Island, SCNPI 1972795516

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,835in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 352 payments — averaging $16.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • AbbVie$858
  • Lilly USA, LLC$546
  • AstraZeneca$340
  • Novartis$315
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$203
  • plus $3K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,835100%

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.

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

$5,835 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$116,162
Medicare patients
353
Services billed
2,658

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
OzempicSemaglutide65$70,966
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol41$49,190
EliquisApixaban37$48,776
TrulicityDulaglutide21$34,096
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$22,716
XareltoRivaroxaban18$19,151
VraylarCariprazine Hcl11$18,433
GemtesaVibegron27$17,810
MounjaroTirzepatide11$17,377
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl16$11,880
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter11$11,038
MyrbetriqMirabegron14$8,420
Atorvastatin Calcium418$4,259
Rosuvastatin Calcium180$3,970
Levothyroxine Sodium282$3,169

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$1,003$70,96665 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$546$51,47332 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$340$49,19041 claims
PfizerEliquis$144$48,77637 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$47$22,71621 claims
AbbVieVraylar, Synthroid$858$20,24735 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$203$17,81027 claims
MerckJanumet$43$11,88016 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$169$11,03811 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$14$8,42014 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 85th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.

Other family medicine in Pawleys Island

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