RxDoctor Payments Data

Sandhya Ventrapragada, MD

Internal Medicine · Huntersville, NCNPI 1265662688

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,131in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $15.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$246
  • Amgen$209
  • AstraZeneca$188
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$87
  • Lilly USA, LLC$83
  • Novo Nordisk$68
  • plus $252 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,131100%

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

$1,131 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$49,607
Medicare patients
136
Services billed
634

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
OzempicSemaglutide24$25,393
EliquisApixaban16$22,739
Atorvastatin Calcium74$748
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium17$691
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate17$653
Levothyroxine Sodium34$588
Omeprazole45$489
Losartan Potassium42$476
Gabapentin32$473
Rosuvastatin Calcium42$453
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl16$391
Ezetimibe19$384
Metoprolol Succinate20$300
Pravastatin Sodium20$284
Zolpidem Tartrate25$276

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$68$25,39324 claims
PfizerEliquis$38$22,73916 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$15$69117 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 75th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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