RxDoctor Payments Data

Terri Esterowitz, MD

Internal Medicine · Norfolk, VANPI 1093789653

Payments from drug & device makers

$674in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $18.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$123
  • Merck$101
  • Pfizer$84
  • Amgen$63
  • AbbVie$60
  • Abbott$38
  • plus $204 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$674100%

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

$674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$77,875
Medicare patients
89
Services billed
1,536

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
MounjaroTirzepatide21$22,659
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium33$2,933
Atorvastatin Calcium101$2,197
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir11$1,429
Rosuvastatin Calcium49$906
Gabapentin27$832
Amlodipine Besylate99$745
Olmesartan Medoxomil20$644
Duloxetine Hcl18$571
Pantoprazole Sodium24$563
Metoprolol Succinate27$480
Levothyroxine Sodium51$480
Fluoxetine Hcl22$479
Omeprazole15$388
Alendronate Sodium25$360

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$17$22,65921 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$60$2,93333 claims
PfizerPaxlovid$84$1,42911 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 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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