RxDoctor Payments Data

William Kelly, MD

Internal Medicine · Bethesda, MDNPI 1720422421

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $179 of the $204 with a category attached, or 87.4%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Seagen Inc. at 57.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $142 and has fallen 81.9% since, to $26 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $161.

$204in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $40.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Seagen Inc.$117
  • Novocure Inc.$41
  • Merck$26
  • Puma Biotechnology, Inc.$20
$538,256in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $76,894 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Gilead$475K
  • Novocure Inc.$35K
  • Genentech, Inc.$29K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$17987%
  • Education$2613%

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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22
25

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
Seagen Inc.1$117
Novocure Inc.2$41
Merck1$26
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.1$20

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

$204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,758,311
Medicare patients
221
Services billed
68,055

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
TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate19$334,304
Levetiracetam42$1,147
Ondansetron Hcl33$680
Prochlorperazine Maleate14$382
Dexamethasone27$334
Escitalopram Oxalate16$68
Pantoprazole Sodium18$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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