RxDoctor Payments Data

Troy Pascoe, MD

Internal Medicine · Battle Creek, MINPI 1619979838

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,717in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 90 payments — averaging $19.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$273
  • Smith+Nephew$238
  • AstraZeneca$86
  • Merck$84
  • Novo Nordisk$83
  • Bioventus LLC$79
  • plus $874 from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,717100%

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

$1,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$25,922
Medicare patients
128
Services billed
403

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
EliquisApixaban31$28,287
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$21,682
OzempicSemaglutide11$10,273
Atorvastatin Calcium102$2,381
Metoprolol Succinate66$1,327
Levothyroxine Sodium90$1,276
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart11$1,150
Pregabalin19$987
Celecoxib32$835
Repaglinide17$821
Losartan Potassium37$816
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate27$798
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen46$796
Tamsulosin Hcl32$764
Simvastatin36$684

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$57$28,28731 claims
MerckJanuvia$84$21,68214 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$83$10,27311 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 80th percentile of 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.

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