RxDoctor Payments Data

Zulfiqar Rizvi, MD

Internal Medicine · Palos Heights, ILNPI 1144276361

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,669in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $16.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$657
  • GSK$192
  • Novartis$183
  • AbbVie$171
  • Lilly USA, LLC$170
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$169
  • plus $1K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,65199%
  • Education$181%

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

$2,669 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$259,180
Medicare patients
444
Services billed
2,782

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
EliquisApixaban143$176,824
OzempicSemaglutide24$26,726
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$21,857
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter18$13,813
XareltoRivaroxaban12$13,113
MyrbetriqMirabegron13$13,106
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog50$5,058
Atorvastatin Calcium397$4,935
BelsomraSuvorexant11$4,855
Metoprolol Succinate275$4,640
Rosuvastatin Calcium304$4,566
Levothyroxine Sodium284$4,529
Glipizide-MetforminGlipizide/Metformin Hcl54$4,279
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium37$3,747
Pravastatin Sodium123$3,508

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
PfizerEliquis$657$176,824143 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$153$26,72624 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$31$21,85714 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$192$13,81318 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$81$13,11312 claims
MerckBelsomra$87$4,85511 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$171$3,74737 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 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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