RxDoctor Payments Data

Zakirhusain Patel, MD

Internal Medicine · Panama City, FLNPI 1437114634

Payments from drug & device makers

$244in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $16.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$54
  • Novo Nordisk$53
  • AstraZeneca$43
  • Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$19
  • Exact Sciences$19
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$15
  • plus $41 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$244100%

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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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.

How this compares

$244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$129,594
Medicare patients
151
Services billed
1,185

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
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$26,219
EliquisApixaban26$19,227
VraylarCariprazine Hcl11$18,522
Rosuvastatin Calcium151$2,666
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$2,535
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$1,932
Pravastatin Sodium91$1,866
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium17$1,515
Omeprazole95$1,445
Gabapentin99$1,222
Metoprolol Succinate80$938
Levothyroxine Sodium73$855
Potassium Chloride50$849
Atorvastatin Calcium54$797
Amlodipine Besylate72$611

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
MerckJanuvia$13$26,21917 claims
AbbVieVraylar, Synthroid$54$20,03628 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 40th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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