RxDoctor Payments Data

William Sarantos, MD

Internal Medicine · River Forest, ILNPI 1023192671

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,159in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $19.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$448
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$173
  • Novo Nordisk$117
  • Novartis$103
  • Abbott$93
  • Johnson & Johnson$64
  • plus $161 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,10095%
  • Education$605%

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

$1,159 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$121,934
Medicare patients
149
Services billed
1,058

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
OzempicSemaglutide48$77,326
EliquisApixaban67$73,743
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$19,464
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan26$17,501
XareltoRivaroxaban14$9,276
Losartan Potassium247$2,882
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate70$2,586
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$2,084
Lansoprazole82$1,893
Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic25$1,741
Metoprolol Succinate73$1,722
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium16$1,592
Levothyroxine Sodium139$1,504
Tamsulosin Hcl118$1,416
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate11$1,200

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$117$77,32648 claims
PfizerEliquis$16$73,74367 claims
NovartisEntresto$103$17,50126 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$64$9,27614 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$448$1,59216 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 75th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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