RxDoctor Payments Data

Ryan Pearman, MD

Internal Medicine · Brentwood, TNNPI 1619269008

Payments from drug & device makers

$958in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $20.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$230
  • Pfizer$123
  • AbbVie$80
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$79
  • Olympus America Inc.$58
  • GSK$58
  • plus $330 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$958100%

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

$958 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$91,275
Medicare patients
166
Services billed
3,213

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
EliquisApixaban17$15,653
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$14,921
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$10,577
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide12$6,240
Atorvastatin Calcium402$4,798
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$3,732
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$2,539
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium32$2,203
Levothyroxine Sodium133$1,828
Potassium Chloride50$1,462
Omeprazole129$1,456
Losartan Potassium153$1,332
Amlodipine Besylate206$1,272
Rosuvastatin Calcium98$1,225
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl14$1,221

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
PfizerEliquis$123$15,65317 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$50$14,92119 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$58$3,73212 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$80$2,20332 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 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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