RxDoctor Payments Data

An Pang Chieng, MD

Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1821030305

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,326in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 146 payments — averaging $22.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$569
  • Merck$456
  • AstraZeneca$289
  • Amgen$247
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$245
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$224
  • plus $1K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$592%
  • Food & beverage$3,19196%
  • Education$772%

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.

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

$3,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$22,238
Medicare patients
93
Services billed
210

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
OzempicSemaglutide49$58,044
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol82$57,181
ProliaDenosumab25$42,016
TrulicityDulaglutide37$41,035
JardianceEmpagliflozin42$37,555
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl109$34,659
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl22$28,680
XareltoRivaroxaban28$22,701
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl31$21,946
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide13$17,471
MyrbetriqMirabegron21$11,490
Icosapent Ethyl63$10,647
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$8,683
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr19$8,125
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$5,884

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy$224$59,50173 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$156$58,04449 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$289$57,18182 claims
AmgenProlia$247$42,01625 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$190$41,03537 claims
MerckJanumet, Janumet Xr$456$37,36335 claims
GileadVemlidy$48$17,47113 claims
GSKAnoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$54$14,00935 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$23$4,18713 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 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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