Amy Betancourt, PA
Physician Assistant · Bakersfield, CANPI 1578676904
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $19.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$206
- AstraZeneca$122
- Pfizer$110
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$92
- Dynavax Technologies Corporation$75
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$72
- plus $623 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,300100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $206 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $122 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $110 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $92 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 3 | $75 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $72 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $66 |
| Bayer | 3 | $62 |
| GSK | 4 | $59 |
| Amgen | 3 | $59 |
| Vertex | 2 | $54 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $45 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $42 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $40 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $28 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
How this compares
$1,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 22 | $19,450 |
| EliquisApixaban | 18 | $15,158 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 17 | $14,543 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 12 | $10,459 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 17 | $9,337 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 21 | $8,118 |
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 15 | $7,291 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 11 | $6,748 |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | 12 | $3,726 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 30 | $2,682 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 19 | $2,253 |
| Insulin Lispro Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 11 | $1,767 |
| Estradiol | 37 | $1,252 |
| Pregabalin | 34 | $801 |
| Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic | 15 | $794 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis, Premarin | $110 | $22,44933 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $42 | $19,45022 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta | $59 | $14,86632 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $206 | $14,54317 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $122 | $9,33717 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $28 | $2,68230 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 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Other physician assistant in Bakersfield
- Anita GarrettBakersfield$41K
- John QuigleyDowney$2.9M
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.