RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Mims, MD

Internal Medicine · New Orleans, LANPI 1649216904

Payments from drug & device makers

$488in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $20.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$99
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$93
  • Bayer$52
  • Amgen$37
  • Pfizer$27
  • Novo Nordisk$25
  • plus $154 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$46395%
  • Education$255%

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

$488 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$65,804
Medicare patients
93
Services billed
448

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin63$50,916
EliquisApixaban34$23,301
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate25$22,163
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.123$3,917
Sevelamer Carbonate20$3,503
Calcium Acetate33$2,077
Nifedipine ErNifedipine56$1,090
Calcitriol88$944
Hydralazine Hcl79$631
Atorvastatin Calcium61$538
Losartan Potassium56$406
Carvedilol72$390
Metoprolol Tartrate11$386
Tamsulosin Hcl27$383
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl17$382

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$27$23,30134 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 50th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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