RxDoctor Payments Data

Simon Lipetz, MD

Internal Medicine · Forest Hills, NYNPI 1710967393

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,716in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 343 payments — averaging $45.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$3K
  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • Amgen$2K
  • Novo Nordisk$921
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$893
  • Sanofi$780
  • plus $5K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$15,685100%
  • Education$310%

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

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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

$15,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

See all internal medicine providers in New York

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$378,787
Medicare patients
204
Services billed
5,446

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
OzempicSemaglutide66$69,183
RayosPrednisone17$58,307
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf170$52,774
Diclofenac Sodium74$42,861
EliquisApixaban27$38,981
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl56$36,673
JubliaEfinaconazole22$33,322
LinzessLinaclotide47$31,975
Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate30$31,115
Metformin Er GastricMetformin Hcl16$26,112
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate13$25,356
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate36$24,637
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$23,484
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl19$16,917
XareltoRivaroxaban14$12,313

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
PfizerAbrysvo, Eliquis, Nurtec Odt$396$117,112210 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia, Janumet Xr$19$78,226111 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$921$69,18366 claims
AmgenRayos$1,997$58,30717 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$3,067$35,34197 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Nexium$2,755$29,22829 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Shingrix$466$16,29131 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$20$12,31314 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta$100$11,31814 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$17$7,87018 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 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

Other internal medicine in Forest Hills

See the full list for New York

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →