RxDoctor Payments Data

Sukaina Ahmad, MD

Internal Medicine · Raleigh, NCNPI 1629331673

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,097in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $15.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$349
  • Johnson & Johnson$146
  • Amgen$127
  • Exact Sciences$64
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$56
  • AbbVie$47
  • plus $309 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,097100%

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

$1,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$44,656
Medicare patients
159
Services billed
518

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
OzempicSemaglutide13$19,206
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$18,564
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$17,706
MyrbetriqMirabegron34$15,654
EliquisApixaban11$10,386
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$5,090
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol12$3,681
Atorvastatin Calcium185$2,245
Losartan Potassium103$1,646
Levothyroxine Sodium169$1,569
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate51$1,494
Rosuvastatin Calcium78$1,432
Gabapentin57$1,121
Amlodipine Besylate188$1,092
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium15$949

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$349$19,20613 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$56$18,56416 claims
PfizerEliquis$30$10,38611 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$33$5,09011 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$47$94915 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 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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