RxDoctor Payments Data

Semret Mebrahtu, MD

Internal Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1609941186

Payments from drug & device makers

$641in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $15.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$226
  • Amgen$150
  • Pfizer$80
  • Novo Nordisk$62
  • Lilly USA, LLC$39
  • Novartis$33
  • plus $52 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$63599%
  • Education$61%

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.

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

$641 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$131,407
Medicare patients
271
Services billed
1,230

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
OzempicSemaglutide68$74,565
EliquisApixaban42$53,551
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate28$31,791
MounjaroTirzepatide24$27,004
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$24,085
TrulicityDulaglutide17$20,070
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide20$16,849
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$11,937
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol20$4,473
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog25$3,623
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol21$3,365
Atorvastatin Calcium387$3,262
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate145$3,245
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$3,117
Esomeprazole Magnesium16$3,099

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$62$74,56568 claims
PfizerEliquis$80$53,55142 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$39$47,07441 claims
MerckJanuvia$17$31,79128 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$226$15,05429 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 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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