RxDoctor Payments Data

Wesley Ray, MD

Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1063403434

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,938in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 331 payments — averaging $17.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • AbbVie$813
  • Pfizer$643
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$526
  • Lilly USA, LLC$476
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$467
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,70196%
  • Education$2374%

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

$5,938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$196,840
Medicare patients
235
Services billed
10,578

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
OzempicSemaglutide174$186,304
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter105$80,808
EliquisApixaban83$71,920
XareltoRivaroxaban77$68,692
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec62$43,483
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol66$38,285
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$31,535
MyrbetriqMirabegron47$26,802
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase14$24,328
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl29$23,574
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$20,883
LinzessLinaclotide37$18,812
MounjaroTirzepatide19$18,203
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol41$16,828
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen605$16,145

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$1,267$186,304174 claims
PfizerEliquis, Lyrica, Premarin$643$99,037124 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$243$97,636146 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$110$68,69277 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess, Synthroid$813$51,087145 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$57$45,52678 claims
MerckJanumet Xr, Januvia$15$44,45751 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$71$36,03165 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$467$26,80247 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$476$18,20319 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$526$16,12527 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 85th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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