RxDoctor Payments Data

Sharif Elkabbani, MD

Hospitalist · Athens, GANPI 1598883928

Payments from drug & device makers

$368in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $33.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$110
  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$84
  • Edwards Lifesciences$65
  • Pfizer$55
  • Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$22
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$19
  • plus $12 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$368100%

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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20
23

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

$368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 812 hospitalist providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$195,007
Medicare patients
625
Services billed
2,251

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
EliquisApixaban27$17,229
BrilintaTicagrelor20$8,591
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate17$470
Atorvastatin Calcium97$462
Metoprolol Succinate77$381
Levothyroxine Sodium32$348
Levetiracetam15$341
Cefdinir44$339
Gabapentin28$306
Hydralazine Hcl24$294
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron24$183
Metoprolol Tartrate40$181
Pantoprazole Sodium28$180
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate41$178
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen34$156

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$55$17,22927 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$12$8,59120 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 812 hospitalist providers in Georgia.

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