RxDoctor Payments Data

Yvette-Marie Pellegrino, MD

Adult Medicine · Beaufort, SCNPI 1578536504

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 41 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $304 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $19 in 2023.

$635in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $15.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$130
  • AstraZeneca$99
  • AbbVie$49
  • Abbott$38
  • Merck$37
  • Lilly USA, LLC$36
  • plus $245 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$635100%

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

19
20
22
23

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

Too few adult medicine providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$181,364
Medicare patients
560
Services billed
2,289

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
MounjaroTirzepatide243$278,933
OzempicSemaglutide164$228,147
JardianceEmpagliflozin111$120,865
EliquisApixaban82$93,547
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate44$51,065
LinzessLinaclotide29$37,642
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$26,771
WegovySemaglutide20$25,392
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl19$23,657
TrulicityDulaglutide14$22,381
XareltoRivaroxaban14$22,371
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter23$20,481
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec24$19,954
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec11$18,404
MyrbetriqMirabegron12$15,834

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$36$301,314257 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Wegovy$130$253,540184 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$12$99,45894 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr, Janumet$37$86,139105 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$49$46,064121 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$99$33,07838 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta$15$31,77546 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$14$22,37114 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. There are too few adult medicine providers in South Carolinaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Other adult medicine in Beaufort

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