RxDoctor Payments Data

Afshin Akhavan, DO

Family Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1003952797

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,013in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $21.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$209
  • Merck$177
  • AbbVie$117
  • Novo Nordisk$110
  • Gilead$78
  • Organon$66
  • plus $256 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$98197%
  • Education$323%

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

$1,013 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$58,316
Medicare patients
112
Services billed
598

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 Phosphate99$77,624
RybelsusSemaglutide32$32,291
JardianceEmpagliflozin35$25,722
EliquisApixaban42$24,953
OzempicSemaglutide26$22,334
XareltoRivaroxaban21$19,369
TrulicityDulaglutide15$18,025
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$11,360
LinzessLinaclotide11$8,503
Celecoxib105$6,116
Diclofenac Sodium69$4,840
Esomeprazole Magnesium20$2,926
Tamsulosin Hcl145$2,750
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate84$2,718
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro13$2,526

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$177$77,62499 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$110$54,62558 claims
PfizerEliquis$25$24,95342 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$17$18,02515 claims
NovartisEntresto$209$11,36014 claims
AbbVieLinzess$117$8,50311 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 70th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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