RxDoctor Payments Data

Sumanth Balguri, MD

Family Medicine · Fort Smith, ARNPI 1598077679

Payments from drug & device makers

$272in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $16.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$106
  • Pfizer$48
  • Novo Nordisk$34
  • Exact Sciences$30
  • Abbott$23
  • Amgen$17
  • plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$272100%

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

23
24
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie6$106
Pfizer3$48
Novo Nordisk2$34
Exact Sciences2$30
Abbott1$23
Amgen1$17
GSK1$14

How this compares

$272 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,347 family medicine providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$58,469
Medicare patients
107
Services billed
844

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin65$98,582
TrulicityDulaglutide40$50,805
MounjaroTirzepatide36$37,702
EliquisApixaban42$35,052
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter34$33,239
XareltoRivaroxaban21$24,574
MyrbetriqMirabegron23$21,933
RybelsusSemaglutide11$17,282
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol22$17,061
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol24$16,582
OzempicSemaglutide14$15,666
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase12$9,329
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog28$4,068
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf18$4,060
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol30$4,009

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, Shingrix$14$37,29952 claims
PfizerEliquis$48$35,05242 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$34$32,94725 claims
AbbVieCreon, Synthroid$106$10,08923 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 35th percentile of 1,347 family medicine providers in Arkansas.

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