RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Ramsey

Internal Medicine · Seattle, WANPI 1538256896

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $201,066 of the $230,202 with a category attached, or 87.3%. Bayer accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $44,118 and has fallen 54.9% since, to $19,902 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$230,202in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 254 payments — averaging $906.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$154K
  • Merck$45K
  • Pfizer$16K
  • Regeneron$6K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$5K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • plus $2K from 4 others
$1,815,133in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $165,012 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Genentech, Inc.$1.8M
  • AstraZeneca$26K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$1K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$201,06687%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,0002%
  • Travel & lodging$16,6477%
  • Food & beverage$7,4903%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Bayer213$153,679
Merck26$45,000
Pfizer5$16,075
Regeneron4$5,560
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.1$5,000
AstraZeneca1$2,400
Boehringer Ingelheim1$2,385
Novo Nordisk1$41
Illumina, Inc.1$39
Genentech USA, Inc.1$23

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

$230,202 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,038 internal medicine providers in Washington.

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