RxDoctor Payments Data

Sumaira Ali, MD

Internal Medicine · Westerly, RINPI 1841236270

Payments from drug & device makers

$551in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $18.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$110
  • AbbVie$99
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$69
  • GSK$65
  • Novo Nordisk$64
  • Exact Sciences$44
  • plus $100 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$51994%
  • Education$316%

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

$551 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$112,486
Medicare patients
300
Services billed
1,003

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
OzempicSemaglutide142$167,985
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter112$95,517
EliquisApixaban76$50,907
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala11$43,094
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate26$28,433
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase14$22,195
MounjaroTirzepatide19$21,422
XareltoRivaroxaban19$20,805
TradjentaLinagliptin34$18,635
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$18,542
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol38$16,685
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$16,334
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate13$12,326
TrulicityDulaglutide12$11,404
Fluticasone Propionate HfaFluticasone Propionate24$7,208

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$64$167,985142 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$65$112,202150 claims
AbbVieCreon, Synthroid$99$28,22664 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$41$20,80519 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 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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