Sheldon Lewis, MD
Internal Medicine · Highland, INNPI 1366448748
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 260 payments — averaging $19.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$487
- AstraZeneca$389
- Boehringer Ingelheim$374
- AbbVie$230
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$219
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,064100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 69 | $1,072 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 21 | $487 |
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $389 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 18 | $374 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $230 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 10 | $219 |
| GSK | 10 | $204 |
| Novartis | 6 | $201 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $168 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $124 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $124 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 7 | $117 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 5 | $107 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $100 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 6 | $100 |
| Amgen | 4 | $98 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 4 | $82 |
| Bayer | 4 | $80 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 3 | $63 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $54 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $49 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Merck | 2 | $44 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $43 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Abbott | 2 | $34 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $16 |
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
$5,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 190 | $276,622 |
| EliquisApixaban | 521 | $250,161 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 196 | $150,274 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 153 | $124,302 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 161 | $103,215 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 85 | $92,750 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 110 | $75,490 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 42 | $63,614 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 46 | $53,726 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 82 | $38,601 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 27 | $32,077 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 37 | $31,891 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 94 | $29,658 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 58 | $29,162 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 178 | $26,767 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $1,072 | $330,348236 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $54 | $250,161521 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Spiriva Respimat | $374 | $232,621318 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Brilinta, Symbicort | $389 | $156,196243 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $44 | $112,66899 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $124 | $103,215161 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $487 | $78,84959 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta | $204 | $48,64983 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $219 | $32,07727 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $201 | $29,65894 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $230 | $16,45923 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $107 | $13,91215 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 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.
Other internal medicine in Highland
- Robert BuynakValparaiso$24.2M
- Mohammed AllawNewburgh$3.6M
- Raj VuppalanchiIndianapolis$3.4M
- Phillip TothIndianapolis$3.2M
- George CornettFranklin$1.3M
- Ajita NarayanLafayette$951K
- Abhinav SinghGreenwood$738K
- Georgiann LinnemeierIndianapolis$692K
- Wa'el BakdashAnderson$625K
- Rita SchmidSouth Bend$599K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.