RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephen Sanders, MD

Internal Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1942277884

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,515in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 547 payments — averaging $17.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • GSK$1K
  • Pfizer$915
  • Amgen$610
  • AstraZeneca$546
  • plus $4K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,515100%

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

$9,515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$148,226
Medicare patients
446
Services billed
1,614

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
EliquisApixaban188$202,709
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate121$151,091
OzempicSemaglutide103$128,844
TrulicityDulaglutide60$99,652
MounjaroTirzepatide54$60,802
XareltoRivaroxaban36$48,395
RybelsusSemaglutide18$44,335
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog55$43,412
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter38$43,247
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$32,705
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec45$30,211
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol49$28,750
MyrbetriqMirabegron30$28,384
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec16$24,774
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol26$19,213

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, Premarin, Abrysvo$915$215,128217 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$1,095$173,179121 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$500$160,454114 claims
MerckJanuvia$112$151,091121 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arexvy$1,062$89,530155 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$116$48,39536 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$190$32,70521 claims
AbbVieNamzaric, Linzess, Synthroid$1,742$31,87777 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$139$28,38430 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$546$25,69843 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 90th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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