Alexander Rivkin
Family Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1710913223
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 73.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $220,248 and has fallen 82.0% since, to $39,569 in 2025. Among family medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 714 payments — averaging $1212.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$640K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$153K
- Merz North America, Inc.$73K
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$561
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$43
- Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$24
- plus $15 from 1 others
Across 170 payments — averaging $11,426 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$1.9M
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$292,33934%
- Speaking & faculty fees$488,00456%
- Travel & lodging$62,7637%
- Food & beverage$22,5453%
- Education$2210%
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 401 | $639,590 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 172 | $152,559 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 132 | $73,081 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $561 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$865,872 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Other family medicine in Los Angeles
- Pamela KushnerLos Angeles$1.2M
- Scott HowellLos Angeles$793K
- Derrick ButlerLos Angeles$692K
- Jacqueline KenneyLos Angeles$121K
- Sherly SoleimanEncino$1.2M
- Sujata NarayanStanford$1.2M
- Jeffrey UngerChino$906K
- Sandra CalmanMontara$589K
- Anthony JonesOakland$377K
- Amira AyadBakersfield$360K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.