RxDoctor Payments Data

Sherif Malek, MD

Internal Medicine · West Long Branch, NJNPI 1699716175

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,269in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,021 payments — averaging $13.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$3K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • GSK$922
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$578
  • plus $5K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13,13899%
  • Education$1311%

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

$13,269 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$331,818
Medicare patients
654
Services billed
3,930

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
OzempicSemaglutide126$166,295
MounjaroTirzepatide101$117,023
EliquisApixaban145$97,256
RybelsusSemaglutide73$94,917
JardianceEmpagliflozin138$92,009
XareltoRivaroxaban108$82,422
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate73$51,406
TradjentaLinagliptin69$46,733
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol70$46,623
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter44$41,555
TrulicityDulaglutide23$32,534
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab55$31,315
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres13$28,412
LinzessLinaclotide25$22,261
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol30$22,088

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$2,975$261,211199 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy Xr$578$150,824221 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$354$149,557124 claims
PfizerEliquis$315$97,256145 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$529$82,422108 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$410$82,207111 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,516$68,710100 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$922$68,374112 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Restasis$1,494$30,75049 claims
NovartisEntresto$210$12,33929 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$177$5,60913 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 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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