RxDoctor Payments Data

Aaron Chiang, MD

Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1184936379

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,186in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $25.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$133
  • Amgen$101
  • Pfizer$100
  • Biomerieux Inc$90
  • GSK$85
  • Lilly USA, LLC$80
  • plus $597 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,186100%

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

$1,186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$190,079
Medicare patients
248
Services billed
5,116

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
MounjaroTirzepatide23$24,410
TrulancePlecanatide12$8,872
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium54$5,545
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir46$4,236
Rosuvastatin Calcium147$2,118
Ezetimibe42$1,915
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl34$1,629
Losartan Potassium141$1,549
Atorvastatin Calcium175$1,441
Quetiapine Fumarate20$1,108
Escitalopram Oxalate33$1,035
Levothyroxine Sodium73$995
Amlodipine Besylate129$987
Mirtazapine14$930
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl40$852

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$80$24,41023 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$60$8,87212 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$133$5,54554 claims
PfizerPaxlovid$100$4,23646 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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