RxDoctor Payments Data

Sharon Palmer, MD

Family Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1144283714

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,281in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 191 payments — averaging $17.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$714
  • AstraZeneca$555
  • Lilly USA, LLC$491
  • Novo Nordisk$414
  • Bayer$352
  • Exact Sciences$129
  • plus $626 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,281100%

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.

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

$3,281 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$935,460
Medicare patients
183
Services billed
27,517

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
OzempicSemaglutide46$53,317
EliquisApixaban48$50,192
MounjaroTirzepatide27$44,382
RybelsusSemaglutide18$43,658
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate16$28,568
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$23,438
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$18,660
XareltoRivaroxaban13$17,512
LinzessLinaclotide12$14,895
TrulicityDulaglutide14$13,376
Atorvastatin Calcium116$1,591
Levothyroxine Sodium118$1,410
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl54$1,374
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate40$1,363
Rosuvastatin Calcium91$1,337

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$414$96,97564 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$491$57,75841 claims
PfizerEliquis$107$50,19248 claims
MerckJanuvia$18$28,56816 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$23,43817 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$555$18,66011 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$714$15,86827 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 75th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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