RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Shetter, MD

Internal Medicine · Butler, PANPI 1598756371

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,131in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 395 payments — averaging $15.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$940
  • AbbVie$605
  • Pfizer$542
  • GSK$493
  • AstraZeneca$460
  • Amgen$376
  • plus $3K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,99398%
  • Education$1382%

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.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$6,131 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$165,505
Medicare patients
233
Services billed
1,837

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
EliquisApixaban330$292,617
JardianceEmpagliflozin96$106,111
OzempicSemaglutide94$99,351
XareltoRivaroxaban95$89,618
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate78$72,945
RybelsusSemaglutide32$66,530
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter66$60,794
ProliaDenosumab27$45,733
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol39$43,121
TradjentaLinagliptin39$37,408
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl37$37,064
Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog37$31,162
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr43$27,920
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan27$27,472
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog56$25,498

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$542$292,617330 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$940$165,881126 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$203$143,519135 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Lagevrio (Eua)$170$120,169132 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$493$113,492141 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$235$89,61895 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$460$62,25888 claims
AmgenProlia$376$45,73327 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33, Multaq$224$29,02723 claims
NovartisEntresto$143$27,47227 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$319$22,96120 claims
AbbVieLinzess$605$18,34929 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 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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