RxDoctor Payments Data

Sarah Polito, DO

Family Medicine · Valparaiso, INNPI 1548675119

Payments from drug & device makers

$375in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $20.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$126
  • Pfizer$33
  • AbbVie$32
  • Novo Nordisk$30
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$25
  • Adlon Therapeutics L.p.$22
  • plus $106 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$36397%
  • Education$123%

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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20
22
25

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

$375 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,405
Medicare patients
227
Services billed
669

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$43,279
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$28,804
OzempicSemaglutide15$17,744
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium38$3,235
Atorvastatin Calcium315$2,000
Rosuvastatin Calcium114$1,985
Levothyroxine Sodium239$1,673
Pantoprazole Sodium104$1,438
Metoprolol Succinate88$1,428
Gabapentin76$1,204
Losartan Potassium152$1,014
Duloxetine Hcl67$1,011
Valsartan30$923
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate36$916
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl32$794

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
MerckJanuvia$14$28,80422 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$30$17,74415 claims
AbbVieSynthroid, Armour Thyroid$32$3,89056 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 40th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.

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