RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephen May, MD

Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1154366409

Payments from drug & device makers

$584in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $16.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$213
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$89
  • Amgen$61
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$38
  • Johnson & Johnson$37
  • Novo Nordisk$36
  • plus $109 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$57799%
  • Education$71%

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

$584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,271
Medicare patients
319
Services billed
776

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
OzempicSemaglutide158$183,566
EliquisApixaban73$85,926
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter72$71,966
MounjaroTirzepatide60$65,121
XareltoRivaroxaban53$52,831
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate70$51,699
JardianceEmpagliflozin31$38,244
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab60$34,433
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase11$32,423
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol32$26,548
TrulicityDulaglutide22$26,096
TrulancePlecanatide19$25,467
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol61$12,869
LinzessLinaclotide16$12,446
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec11$11,838

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$36$183,566158 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$213$92,18085 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$36$81,20386 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess, Synthroid, Savella$20$57,869134 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$37$52,83153 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$89$11,81213 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 60th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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