RxDoctor Payments Data

Zubair Farooqui, MD

Internal Medicine · Tampa, FLNPI 1821001835

Payments from drug & device makers

$730,595in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 596 payments — averaging $1225.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Genentech, Inc.$321K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$319K
  • Pfizer$63K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$13K
  • Chiesi USA, Inc.$6K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • plus $8K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,0009%
  • Food & beverage$9,67891%

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

$730,595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$165,291
Medicare patients
335
Services billed
1,577

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
EliquisApixaban172$117,516
JardianceEmpagliflozin108$112,107
OzempicSemaglutide78$97,045
Humira PenAdalimumab11$75,030
MounjaroTirzepatide52$62,225
TrulicityDulaglutide55$60,285
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter56$46,879
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate23$34,992
LinzessLinaclotide42$27,768
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol34$27,166
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan28$24,549
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate30$21,045
XareltoRivaroxaban24$17,599
RybelsusSemaglutide12$16,676
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec21$15,014

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat$617$133,152138 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$62,855$123,158190 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$841$122,510107 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$963$113,72190 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Breztri Aerosphere$1,224$50,40099 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$533$46,87956 claims
AbbVieLinzess$694$27,76842 claims
NovartisEntresto$420$24,54928 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$326$17,59924 claims
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US IncQuviviq$35$5,28811 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 95th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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