RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Varughese, MD

Internal Medicine · Douglasville, GANPI 1720138597

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,461in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 551 payments — averaging $17.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • GSK$1K
  • Pfizer$873
  • Lilly USA, LLC$695
  • Novo Nordisk$628
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$613
  • plus $4K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,455100%
  • Education$60%

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

$9,461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$163,246
Medicare patients
219
Services billed
2,484

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
OzempicSemaglutide69$67,756
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide50$61,714
EliquisApixaban147$52,333
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter50$43,904
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol40$40,317
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$38,186
GemtesaVibegron40$29,904
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol35$23,467
LinzessLinaclotide26$20,135
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$19,130
XareltoRivaroxaban12$12,097
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr13$11,808
TrulicityDulaglutide15$11,673
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol13$9,826
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm12$8,262

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, Novolog$628$68,95383 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$1,045$65,53876 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,422$63,78475 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$613$61,71450 claims
PfizerEliquis$873$52,333147 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$353$38,18626 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$163$29,90440 claims
AbbVieLinzess$405$20,13526 claims
MerckJanuvia$130$19,13014 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$175$12,09712 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$695$11,67315 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 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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