RxDoctor Payments Data

Salman Shafiq, MD

Internal Medicine · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1376570648

Payments from drug & device makers

$466in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $21.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$62
  • GSK$58
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$55
  • Pfizer$53
  • Lilly USA, LLC$40
  • AstraZeneca$36
  • plus $163 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$466100%

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.

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

$466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,924 internal medicine providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$28,197
Medicare patients
87
Services billed
387

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
OzempicSemaglutide15$30,300
TradjentaLinagliptin26$27,819
EliquisApixaban18$13,431
Rosuvastatin Calcium39$652
Pregabalin20$390
Pravastatin Sodium14$286
Amlodipine Besylate70$277
Gabapentin18$265
Metformin Hcl57$252
Fluoxetine Hcl14$182
Metoprolol Succinate23$141
Omeprazole11$133
Risperidone12$126
Trazodone Hcl14$121
Montelukast Sodium11$116

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$62$30,30015 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta$55$27,81926 claims
PfizerEliquis$53$13,43118 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 1,924 internal medicine providers in Minnesota.

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