RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Yates, MD

Internal Medicine · Toccoa, GANPI 1225012446

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,881in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 556 payments — averaging $15.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$1K
  • AstraZeneca$923
  • AbbVie$809
  • Amgen$739
  • Novo Nordisk$703
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$696
  • plus $4K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,871100%
  • Education$100%

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

$8,881 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
$278,164
Medicare patients
588
Services billed
13,087

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin234$206,803
OzempicSemaglutide135$152,128
EliquisApixaban110$100,504
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol109$84,508
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide41$39,274
TrulicityDulaglutide29$36,684
RybelsusSemaglutide30$34,548
MounjaroTirzepatide21$34,382
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec42$30,595
XareltoRivaroxaban29$29,746
LinzessLinaclotide27$21,883
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol43$20,660
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf83$18,338
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen710$16,262
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl15$16,215

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$696$216,029245 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$703$186,676165 claims
PfizerEliquis$1,042$100,504110 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Daliresp$923$94,294144 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$465$71,06550 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta, Shingrix, Trelegy Ellipta$139$54,971151 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Qulipta, Synthroid, Lumigan$809$40,533122 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$539$39,27441 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$179$29,74629 claims
MerckJanumet$91$16,21515 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$125$15,38929 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi, Edarbyclor$42$11,44939 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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