RxDoctor Payments Data

Shelton Hager, MD

Family Medicine · Kingsport, TNNPI 1407859796

Payments from drug & device makers

$14,296in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,100 payments — averaging $13.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • GSK$1K
  • Amgen$640
  • plus $6K from 48 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$450%
  • Travel & lodging$30%
  • Food & beverage$14,248100%

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

$14,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$79,557
Medicare patients
213
Services billed
1,329

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
EliquisApixaban91$79,696
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$24,707
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$22,952
XareltoRivaroxaban13$13,065
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$9,895
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec16$7,717
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate13$4,771
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen208$4,114
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog29$2,931
Omeprazole216$2,084
Atorvastatin Calcium232$2,036
Esomeprazole Magnesium21$1,969
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate70$1,918
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen74$1,885
Levothyroxine Sodium221$1,654

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$1,159$79,69691 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,555$24,70744 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$459$22,95225 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$334$13,06513 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$543$9,89511 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$465$1,57813 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,703$77116 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 95th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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