RxDoctor Payments Data

Sairus Faruque, MD

Internal Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1154431237

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,078in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 404 payments — averaging $17.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$950
  • Novo Nordisk$910
  • Amgen$857
  • Pfizer$635
  • AstraZeneca$510
  • Lilly USA, LLC$473
  • plus $3K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,059100%
  • Education$60%
  • Entertainment$130%

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

$7,078 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$235,976
Medicare patients
379
Services billed
3,100

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
OzempicSemaglutide196$221,809
JardianceEmpagliflozin62$73,336
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide65$48,024
EliquisApixaban43$46,448
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$39,953
RybelsusSemaglutide31$38,377
MounjaroTirzepatide30$37,166
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate29$36,161
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter33$24,183
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium63$6,419
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide12$6,202
Atorvastatin Calcium522$4,317
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol36$4,281
Valsartan164$3,743
Levothyroxine Sodium330$3,285

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, Rybelsus$910$260,186227 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$116$79,53874 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$635$49,30771 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$332$48,02465 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$510$39,95344 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$473$37,16630 claims
MerckJanuvia$17$36,16129 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$255$24,18333 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$950$6,41963 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$16$3,285330 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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