RxDoctor Payments Data

Sissel Topple, MD

Family Medicine · Asheville, NCNPI 1821027608

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,133in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $15.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$258
  • Novo Nordisk$174
  • Amgen$126
  • AstraZeneca$97
  • Novo Nordisk AS$82
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$60
  • plus $337 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,133100%

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.

How this compares

$1,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$77,030
Medicare patients
243
Services billed
925

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin98$94,284
EliquisApixaban97$75,808
OzempicSemaglutide74$68,003
XareltoRivaroxaban43$32,767
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol35$19,400
TrulicityDulaglutide13$16,999
InvokanaCanagliflozin16$9,044
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate34$7,854
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin12$7,547
LinzessLinaclotide12$6,105
Levothyroxine Sodium405$4,170
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium48$3,046
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$3,013
Metoprolol Succinate177$2,214
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog20$2,051

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$60$94,28498 claims
PfizerEliquis$53$75,80897 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$174$68,00374 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invokana$27$41,81059 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$55$19,40035 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$24$16,99913 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$258$9,15260 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$97$7,85434 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 70th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.

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