RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephen Walker, MD

Family Medicine · Elkin, NCNPI 1265402572

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,719in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,088 payments — averaging $15.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$3K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$1K
  • AbbVie$823
  • plus $8K from 50 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$16,62499%
  • Education$951%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$16,719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$98,518
Medicare patients
174
Services billed
4,246

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
OzempicSemaglutide155$194,548
JardianceEmpagliflozin99$101,740
EliquisApixaban84$82,572
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol112$82,475
MounjaroTirzepatide73$75,310
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter37$38,316
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf113$36,084
XareltoRivaroxaban41$28,979
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec35$28,309
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab18$27,591
MyrbetriqMirabegron55$27,525
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate25$26,619
VraylarCariprazine Hcl15$25,257
KerendiaFinerenone34$21,274
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl39$18,706

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, Rybelsus$2,715$208,320170 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Stiolto Respimat$698$107,892112 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Arexvy, Breo Ellipta, Shingrix, Anoro Ellipta$796$105,343221 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$1,153$89,586105 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,822$82,475112 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$1,093$75,31073 claims
AbbVieVraylar, Linzess, Synthroid$823$38,65674 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$262$28,97941 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$460$27,52555 claims
MerckJanuvia$381$26,61925 claims
BayerKerendia$126$21,27434 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$119$9,48620 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 95th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.

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