RxDoctor Payments Data

Suzan Buxton, MD

Internal Medicine · Sun City, AZNPI 1386861235

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,724in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $21.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$483
  • AstraZeneca$362
  • Amgen$298
  • Novo Nordisk$261
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$244
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$194
  • plus $882 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,39497%
  • Education$803%

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

$2,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$277,296
Medicare patients
505
Services billed
2,166

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
OzempicSemaglutide44$59,889
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide31$54,424
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol40$44,590
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$21,550
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$16,361
Sevelamer Carbonate105$15,890
RybelsusSemaglutide11$13,929
AuryxiaFerric Citrate11$11,607
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex11$9,882
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate17$9,216
Midodrine Hcl18$1,551
Bumetanide38$1,518
Calcitriol40$1,494
Terazosin Hcl28$1,312
Fluconazole32$1,076

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, Rybelsus$261$73,81855 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$362$53,80657 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$21$21,55024 claims
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$244$11,60711 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 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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