RxDoctor Payments Data

Samih Bittar, MD

Internal Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1992920524

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,468in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $377.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$11K
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$395
  • Medtronic$235
  • Medline Industries LP$199
  • Tactile Systems Technology Inc$168
  • KCI USA, Inc.$125
  • plus $60 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$9,73078%
  • Travel & lodging$1,0909%
  • Food & beverage$1,62113%
  • Education$260%

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
Johnson & Johnson20$11,287
Inari Medical, Inc.2$395
Medtronic(2 entities)2$235
Medline Industries LP2$199
Tactile Systems Technology Inc4$168
KCI USA, Inc.1$125
Kerecis Limited1$44
Cashflow Solutions, LLC1$16

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

$12,468 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$136,692
Medicare patients
1,031
Services billed
1,855

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
XareltoRivaroxaban153$145,659
EliquisApixaban135$127,428
Cilostazol157$2,657
Mycophenolate Mofetil14$2,117
Triamcinolone Acetonide100$1,399
Rosuvastatin Calcium92$1,258
Ammonium Lactate61$1,055
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate83$994
Levofloxacin44$379
Pentoxifylline15$329
Atorvastatin Calcium32$310
Prednisone50$244
Terbinafine Hcl20$182
Losartan Potassium11$101
Spironolactone20$74

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$11,287$145,659153 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 95th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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