RxDoctor Payments Data

Vijay Sharma, MD

Internal Medicine · Frisco, TXNPI 1962475822

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,796in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $35.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$736
  • AbbVie$302
  • Bayer$280
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$237
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$198
  • Abbott$187
  • plus $855 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,796100%

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

$2,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$60,162
Medicare patients
132
Services billed
675

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin58$78,566
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate44$62,193
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol37$46,223
EliquisApixaban30$40,629
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl19$25,430
OzempicSemaglutide20$21,345
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter19$20,383
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan13$19,761
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol21$7,896
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$6,955
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog33$6,101
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro17$6,028
Levothyroxine Sodium321$2,510
Atorvastatin Calcium338$2,301
Gabapentin144$2,279

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$13$78,56658 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$736$46,22337 claims
PfizerEliquis$16$40,62930 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$47$28,28040 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$180$21,34520 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$302$1,97829 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 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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