RxDoctor Payments Data

Sophie Austin, MD

Internal Medicine · Arden, NCNPI 1114414729

Payments from drug & device makers

$254in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $18.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$72
  • Amgen$47
  • Exact Sciences$35
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$32
  • AstraZeneca$21
  • Lilly USA, LLC$18
  • plus $29 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$21986%
  • Education$3514%

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

22
23
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.

How this compares

$254 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$3,579
Medicare patients
23
Services billed
40

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
EliquisApixaban49$34,308
OzempicSemaglutide27$29,634
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$24,226
TrulicityDulaglutide14$23,553
MounjaroTirzepatide11$18,004
XareltoRivaroxaban13$17,097
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate18$5,238
Lubiprostone12$3,486
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate101$2,528
Atorvastatin Calcium188$1,816
Rosuvastatin Calcium133$1,627
Duloxetine Hcl54$1,407
Gabapentin65$1,153
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl27$1,142
Omeprazole80$1,101

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
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$18$41,55825 claims
PfizerEliquis$72$34,30849 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$16$29,63427 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$32$24,22617 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$21$5,23818 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 55th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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