RxDoctor Payments Data

Saurabh Desai, MD

Internal Medicine · Douglasville, GANPI 1578626602

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,672in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 479 payments — averaging $20.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Pfizer$956
  • Novo Nordisk$842
  • Amgen$685
  • Bayer$514
  • Novartis$456
  • plus $5K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,649100%
  • Education$230%

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

$9,672 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$141,621
Medicare patients
302
Services billed
2,481

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
MounjaroTirzepatide196$265,584
OzempicSemaglutide122$184,097
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol147$143,036
EliquisApixaban133$126,745
JardianceEmpagliflozin130$121,779
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter65$62,814
XareltoRivaroxaban126$54,245
LinzessLinaclotide60$48,827
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate39$48,205
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog48$36,830
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan30$30,460
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog54$28,670
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec21$24,562
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide16$23,274
KerendiaFinerenone25$22,160

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, LLCMounjaro$338$265,584196 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$842$184,097122 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Glyxambi$238$158,240162 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,585$157,111166 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$956$132,670151 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Shingrix$323$80,852103 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Namzaric$246$56,864110 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$384$54,245126 claims
MerckJanuvia$195$48,20539 claims
NovartisEntresto$456$30,46030 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$218$23,27416 claims
BayerKerendia$514$22,16025 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 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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