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Wa'el Bakdash, MD

Internal Medicine · Anderson, INNPI 1275552481

Payments from drug & device makers

$624,649in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,039 payments — averaging $601.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk AS$518K
  • Pfizer$100K
  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • Bayer$816
  • AbbVie$717
  • AstraZeneca$713
  • plus $4K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,055100%
  • Education$310%

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

$624,649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$146,164
Medicare patients
442
Services billed
1,511

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
OzempicSemaglutide231$273,641
EliquisApixaban215$219,118
TrulicityDulaglutide56$120,469
JardianceEmpagliflozin85$105,389
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate48$72,689
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec48$65,888
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase31$57,192
MounjaroTirzepatide41$43,818
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol26$33,217
LinzessLinaclotide46$29,999
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan33$29,913
MyrbetriqMirabegron20$26,397
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog84$23,616
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol24$17,610
XareltoRivaroxaban16$15,147

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,511$273,641231 claims
PfizerEliquis, Abrysvo$99,520$227,283241 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$661$164,28797 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$186$112,87299 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$717$87,19177 claims
MerckJanuvia$147$72,68948 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$713$59,76883 claims
NovartisEntresto$191$29,91333 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$39$26,39720 claims
GSKShingrix, Breo Ellipta$275$24,41476 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$278$15,14716 claims
BayerKerendia$816$14,00815 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 95th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.

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