RxDoctor Payments Data

Thaddeus Carson, MD

Internal Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1750602967

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,286in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $17.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$296
  • Pfizer$184
  • Johnson & Johnson$172
  • AstraZeneca$143
  • Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$76
  • Amgen$65
  • plus $350 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,286100%

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

$1,286 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,599
Medicare patients
64
Services billed
126

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
EliquisApixaban13$20,253
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$8,398
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$7,989
Fluticasone Propionate29$364
Famotidine26$354
Tamsulosin Hcl17$333
Rosuvastatin Calcium27$290
Atorvastatin Calcium47$276
Omeprazole20$273
Trazodone Hcl18$268
Amlodipine Besylate30$263
Levothyroxine Sodium19$244
Pregabalin11$227
Metoprolol Succinate25$204
Sumatriptan Succinate14$186

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
PfizerEliquis$184$20,25313 claims
MerckJanuvia$15$8,39815 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$143$7,98914 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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