RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheikh Tejan-Sie, MD

Internal Medicine · Burlington, NCNPI 1346237617

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,799in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 780 payments — averaging $15.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Amgen$683
  • Preventric Diagnostics, Inc.$676
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$620
  • AbbVie$611
  • plus $6K from 47 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$11,782100%
  • Education$160%

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

$11,799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$173,096
Medicare patients
320
Services billed
1,778

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin164$150,878
EliquisApixaban420$149,148
RybelsusSemaglutide77$92,564
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec44$78,395
OzempicSemaglutide71$76,130
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol72$53,940
MounjaroTirzepatide42$46,228
TrulicityDulaglutide63$35,877
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter35$30,217
XareltoRivaroxaban41$26,103
MyrbetriqMirabegron54$20,274
TradjentaLinagliptin20$19,940
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate29$19,370
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol23$18,916
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan54$18,413

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Combivent Respimat, Spiriva Respimat$491$198,079227 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$1,863$168,694148 claims
PfizerEliquis, Abrysvo$186$164,314468 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort, Lokelma$1,038$88,067138 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$505$82,105105 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$103$45,03263 claims
MerckBelsomra, Januvia$551$27,84779 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$294$26,10341 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$611$24,58947 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$115$20,27454 claims
NovartisEntresto$574$18,41354 claims
BayerKerendia$289$16,71520 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 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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