RxDoctor Payments Data

Vikas Lahar, MD

Internal Medicine · North Las Vegas, NVNPI 1316292360

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,658in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $20.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$397
  • Novo Nordisk$250
  • Pfizer$128
  • Bayer$123
  • Lilly USA, LLC$123
  • Amgen$110
  • plus $527 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,658100%

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

$1,658 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$33,158
Medicare patients
82
Services billed
471

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin36$41,257
OzempicSemaglutide26$39,363
Atorvastatin Calcium110$932
LyllanaEstradiol12$808
Rosuvastatin Calcium39$681
Tamsulosin Hcl29$591
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate26$573
Gabapentin17$532
Metoprolol Succinate32$415
Losartan Potassium53$369
Levothyroxine Sodium43$339
Metformin Hcl45$325
Amlodipine Besylate67$324
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide14$302
Lisinopril58$301

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$18$41,25736 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$250$39,36326 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 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.

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