RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Palmer, MD

Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1144245994

Payments from drug & device makers

$660in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $18.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$196
  • Eisai Inc.$112
  • Novartis$71
  • Lilly USA, LLC$64
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$56
  • Pfizer$42
  • plus $117 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$660100%

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

$660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$8,188
Medicare patients
56
Services billed
113

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
OzempicSemaglutide34$40,991
MounjaroTirzepatide25$29,373
XareltoRivaroxaban12$18,138
RybelsusSemaglutide11$10,640
Advair DiskusFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol11$1,687
Levothyroxine Sodium100$1,315
Tamsulosin Hcl52$1,218
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium14$1,135
Metoprolol Succinate55$1,081
Atorvastatin Calcium114$905
Testosterone12$689
Escitalopram Oxalate36$649
NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal15$611
Lisinopril56$604
Alprazolam94$524

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$196$51,63145 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$64$29,37325 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$18$1,13514 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 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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