RxDoctor Payments Data

Shukri Makhlouf, MD

Internal Medicine · Suwanee, GANPI 1679503577

Payments from drug & device makers

$42,168in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 399 payments — averaging $105.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk AS$29K
  • Eli Lilly$5K
  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • GSK$893
  • Pfizer$758
  • Lilly USA, LLC$755
  • plus $4K from 33 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,75028%
  • Travel & lodging$1,1389%
  • Food & beverage$8,18462%
  • Education$1151%

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

$42,168 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$155,012
Medicare patients
278
Services billed
1,645

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
EliquisApixaban88$106,706
JardianceEmpagliflozin75$88,279
TrulicityDulaglutide49$61,003
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter36$47,854
OzempicSemaglutide29$42,057
MounjaroTirzepatide32$41,916
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$40,807
RybelsusSemaglutide15$31,945
XareltoRivaroxaban19$28,209
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl17$25,926
ProliaDenosumab14$24,076
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$22,561
TradjentaLinagliptin11$17,228
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol17$7,971
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide164$6,715

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$758$106,70688 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$138$105,50786 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$755$102,91981 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$1,720$74,00244 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$893$55,82553 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia$52$48,48735 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$205$40,80727 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$94$28,20919 claims
AmgenProlia$257$24,07614 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$211$2,77727 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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