Stephen Liao, MD
Internal Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1548209075
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 66 payments — averaging $16.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$159
- Pfizer$149
- AstraZeneca$84
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$59
- Radius Health, Inc.$58
- Johnson & Johnson$50
- plus $509 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,03797%
- Education$323%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $159 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $149 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $84 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $50 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $48 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $46 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $42 |
| GSK | 3 | $39 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $31 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $21 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Abbott | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 95 | $127,479 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 40 | $68,958 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 28 | $41,088 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 28 | $40,429 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 40 | $38,453 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 31 | $31,359 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 34 | $29,626 |
| Teriparatide | 15 | $21,450 |
| DipentumOlsalazine Sodium | 17 | $18,933 |
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 11 | $18,851 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 24 | $15,725 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 15 | $11,659 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 11 | $9,722 |
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 24 | $7,289 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 383 | $4,709 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis, Premarin | $149 | $134,768119 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $159 | $68,95840 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $50 | $41,08828 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $48 | $40,42928 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $59 | $31,35931 claims |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Nucynta Er | $32 | $18,85111 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere | $84 | $11,65915 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $39 | $9,72211 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $18 | $4,709383 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $14 | $4,60760 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 75th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Tucson
- Robert MutterperlTucson$5.3M
- Nebojsa SkrepnikTucson$4.7M
- Franz RischardTucson$3.7M
- Girish KaramchandaniTucson$2.9M
- Siddharth SinghalTucson$1.3M
- Rajesh JanardhananTucson$983K
- Carl DienerTucson$750K
- Roxana RodriguezTucson$547K
- Mona SelejTucson$440K
- Muhammad HusnainTucson$359K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.