RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Matthews, MD

Internal Medicine · Decatur, ALNPI 1407823099

Payments from drug & device makers

$115in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $16.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$28
  • Lilly USA, LLC$22
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$21
  • Philips North America LLC$15
  • Pfizer$15
  • Exact Sciences$14

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$10087%
  • Education$1513%

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

$115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$180,976
Medicare patients
552
Services billed
4,634

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
OzempicSemaglutide108$141,105
EliquisApixaban148$110,533
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate58$65,695
MounjaroTirzepatide47$55,751
XareltoRivaroxaban35$37,585
InvokanaCanagliflozin29$35,466
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$32,561
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol32$25,461
MultaqDronedarone Hcl22$20,144
RybelsusSemaglutide14$14,878
Rosuvastatin Calcium488$10,138
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$9,562
Losartan Potassium600$8,709
Telmisartan112$7,499
Atorvastatin Calcium464$7,280

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$15$110,533148 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$22$55,75147 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 30th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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