RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Kirkpatrick, MD

Internal Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1356846240

Payments from drug & device makers

$676in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $22.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$100
  • Novartis$84
  • Pfizer$57
  • Nevro Corp.$53
  • Novo Nordisk$52
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$48
  • plus $283 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$676100%

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

$676 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$56,145
Medicare patients
134
Services billed
1,056

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
EliquisApixaban67$46,860
JardianceEmpagliflozin36$23,735
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$14,310
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab11$5,720
Metoprolol Succinate107$724
Ezetimibe66$657
Rosuvastatin Calcium64$432
Losartan Potassium69$379
Spironolactone81$266
Amlodipine Besylate38$218
Potassium Chloride16$127
Irbesartan17$127
Furosemide53$111
Atorvastatin Calcium19$109
Metoprolol Tartrate12$77

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
PfizerEliquis$57$46,86067 claims
NovartisEntresto$84$14,31014 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 70th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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