RxDoctor Payments Data

Sarah Lemon, PA

Physician Assistant · Rapid City, SDNPI 1497926992

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,364in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 76 payments — averaging $17.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$161
  • Lilly USA, LLC$156
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$145
  • Novo Nordisk$126
  • Pfizer$118
  • Amgen$115
  • plus $543 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,364100%

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.

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

$1,364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 548 physician assistant providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,163
Medicare patients
39
Services billed
409

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
Estradiol15$795
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl20$697
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium20$637
Celecoxib19$541
Duloxetine Hcl12$464
Tamsulosin Hcl14$429
Omeprazole20$305
Losartan Potassium56$295
Rosuvastatin Calcium34$294
Lisinopril40$282
Levothyroxine Sodium39$270
Escitalopram Oxalate17$241
Atorvastatin Calcium19$221
Simvastatin33$187
Metoprolol Succinate11$138

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
AbbVieSynthroid$54$63720 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 80th percentile of 548 physician assistant providers in South Dakota.

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