RxDoctor Payments Data

Sara Mees, MD

Family Medicine · Bismarck, NDNPI 1417182163

Payments from drug & device makers

$335in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $17.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$91
  • Lilly USA, LLC$36
  • Exact Sciences$33
  • Johnson & Johnson$29
  • AbbVie$26
  • GSK$24
  • plus $97 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$335100%

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

$335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 337 family medicine providers in North Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$27,982
Medicare patients
170
Services billed
522

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin46$48,402
OzempicSemaglutide46$47,040
EliquisApixaban57$45,753
TrulicityDulaglutide40$44,163
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter24$26,950
MounjaroTirzepatide17$17,592
XareltoRivaroxaban14$17,546
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$15,009
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl11$10,170
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide14$10,031
MyrbetriqMirabegron22$9,818
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec14$8,833
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$3,544
Atorvastatin Calcium296$3,234
Levothyroxine Sodium240$2,928

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
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$36$61,75557 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$12$58,43360 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Shingrix$24$29,49136 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$19$18,55328 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$29$17,54614 claims
MerckJanumet$12$10,17011 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$91$9,81822 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$26$1,56114 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 337 family medicine providers in North Dakota.

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