RxDoctor Payments Data

Alexander Meilan, DO

Internal Medicine · la Jolla, CANPI 1285097162

Payments from drug & device makers

$255in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $21.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$84
  • Philips North America LLC$30
  • Gilead$28
  • Boston Scientific$21
  • AbbVie$19
  • Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company$19
  • plus $54 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$255100%

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

22
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

$255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$178,397
Medicare patients
434
Services billed
4,915

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
EliquisApixaban47$58,261
RybelsusSemaglutide16$25,389
XareltoRivaroxaban15$19,507
Atorvastatin Calcium368$3,918
Gabapentin110$2,689
Levothyroxine Sodium151$2,246
Tamsulosin Hcl115$2,018
Amlodipine Besylate206$2,004
Rosuvastatin Calcium137$1,949
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate45$1,693
Losartan Potassium125$1,680
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl43$1,551
Duloxetine Hcl36$1,527
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium15$1,477
Escitalopram Oxalate46$1,061

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
Novo NordiskRybelsus$84$25,38916 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$19$1,47715 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 55th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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