RxDoctor Payments Data

Suguna Kona, MD

Internal Medicine · Bradenton, FLNPI 1326045543

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,475in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $18.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$450
  • GSK$433
  • AstraZeneca$306
  • AbbVie$302
  • Lilly USA, LLC$281
  • Novo Nordisk$278
  • plus $1K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,475100%

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

$3,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$211,548
Medicare patients
380
Services billed
2,832

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter143$114,808
JardianceEmpagliflozin76$68,234
EliquisApixaban62$62,430
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate38$37,337
OzempicSemaglutide23$28,520
XareltoRivaroxaban20$24,261
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$17,833
MyrbetriqMirabegron13$15,145
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate12$14,271
Gabapentin534$10,864
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog64$10,155
Celecoxib111$7,486
Potassium Chloride125$5,600
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol34$5,090
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated11$4,984

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$433$114,808143 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin, Paxlovid$249$68,84385 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$149$68,23476 claims
MerckJanuvia$52$37,33738 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$278$28,52023 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$94$24,26120 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$306$17,83311 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$25$15,14513 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 85th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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