RxDoctor Payments Data

Sunny Desai, MD

Internal Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1306830492

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,629in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 345 payments — averaging $16.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$700
  • Novo Nordisk$626
  • GSK$564
  • AstraZeneca$486
  • Pfizer$395
  • Amgen$380
  • plus $2K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,629100%

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

$5,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,373
Medicare patients
217
Services billed
867

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin199$204,154
EliquisApixaban205$150,421
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol47$50,118
OzempicSemaglutide39$45,383
XareltoRivaroxaban34$36,521
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf117$31,120
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate27$27,173
MounjaroTirzepatide21$26,607
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter27$25,164
MyrbetriqMirabegron26$17,739
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol17$13,471
Atorvastatin Calcium1,256$12,651
LinzessLinaclotide14$7,781
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl13$7,590
Losartan Potassium720$6,319

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$155$204,154199 claims
PfizerEliquis$395$150,421205 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$486$63,59064 claims
GSKArexvy, Trelegy Ellipta$564$56,284144 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$626$45,38339 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$123$36,52134 claims
MerckJanuvia$53$27,17327 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$700$26,60721 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$131$17,73926 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 90th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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