RxDoctor Payments Data

Solomon Tafari, MD

Internal Medicine · Decatur, GANPI 1235128828

Payments from drug & device makers

$885in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $19.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Inari Medical, Inc.$168
  • Johnson & Johnson$142
  • AbbVie$140
  • Exact Sciences$120
  • ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$78
  • Merck$49
  • plus $189 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$885100%

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

$885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$41,841
Medicare patients
299
Services billed
356

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
EliquisApixaban805$135,297
JardianceEmpagliflozin261$45,574
XareltoRivaroxaban186$30,179
OzempicSemaglutide20$19,672
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan92$19,636
Memantine Hcl908$15,986
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol87$14,300
TrulicityDulaglutide14$13,721
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate52$12,319
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase22$11,103
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter26$10,976
NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl63$10,768
Atorvastatin Calcium1,406$8,753
MyrbetriqMirabegron58$8,345
Sevelamer Carbonate119$8,287

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$25$135,297805 claims
AbbVieCreon, Namzaric, Vraylar, Linzess$140$35,094107 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$142$30,179186 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$20$19,67220 claims
MerckJanuvia$49$12,31952 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 65th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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