RxDoctor Payments Data

Versi Aruwani, MD

Internal Medicine · Franklin, NCNPI 1487667788

Payments from drug & device makers

$264in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $66.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$246
  • Novartis$18

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$187%
  • Education$24693%

General payments by program year

21
22
23
24

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Astellas Pharma US Inc3$246
Novartis1$18

How this compares

$264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$379,443
Medicare patients
389
Services billed
4,438

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
EliquisApixaban271$291,262
OzempicSemaglutide147$215,245
JardianceEmpagliflozin122$154,665
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter60$77,297
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec93$75,722
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl57$48,034
XareltoRivaroxaban49$45,381
MounjaroTirzepatide28$39,485
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide41$39,134
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl35$35,297
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin30$34,862
LinzessLinaclotide40$30,623
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl17$30,136
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan25$23,313
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl15$21,757

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
NovartisEntresto$18$23,31325 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$246$18,99116 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 55th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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