RxDoctor Payments Data

Tauqueer Alam, MD

Internal Medicine · Seneca, SCNPI 1043263494

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,611in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 95 payments — averaging $16.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$325
  • Novartis$305
  • Novo Nordisk$185
  • Abbott$178
  • AstraZeneca$114
  • GSK$65
  • plus $440 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,611100%

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

$1,611 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$681,280
Medicare patients
690
Services billed
40,330

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
OzempicSemaglutide190$194,253
MounjaroTirzepatide70$79,284
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter79$73,096
EliquisApixaban66$58,409
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan29$25,008
XareltoRivaroxaban25$24,191
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec27$22,282
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$22,067
VraylarCariprazine Hcl13$18,926
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$11,929
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol14$9,924
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab15$9,131
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate312$8,450
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol66$7,181
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol15$5,830

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$185$194,253190 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$64$79,28470 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$65$78,92694 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$114$31,99133 claims
NovartisEntresto$305$25,00829 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$35$24,19125 claims
AbbVieVraylar$325$18,92613 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 70th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

Other internal medicine in Seneca

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