RxDoctor Payments Data

Andre Ettinger, MD

Internal Medicine · Pasadena, CANPI 1073608592

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,330in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $22.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$338
  • Sanofi$214
  • Novo Nordisk$199
  • Abbott$184
  • Teleflex LLC$163
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$159
  • plus $1K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,330100%

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

$2,330 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$113,505
Medicare patients
327
Services billed
886

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
OzempicSemaglutide67$71,304
EliquisApixaban89$57,256
XareltoRivaroxaban19$25,974
MounjaroTirzepatide25$25,725
MyrbetriqMirabegron18$12,206
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$9,579
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$8,396
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr13$6,198
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$6,122
Duloxetine Hcl109$3,699
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$3,690
Estradiol37$3,220
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol18$3,171
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol27$2,640
Levothyroxine Sodium183$2,452

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 NordiskOzempic$199$71,30467 claims
PfizerEliquis$90$57,25689 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$147$25,72525 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$158$18,28337 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$97$12,20618 claims
MerckJanuvia$36$9,57917 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$46$6,12211 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$338$70026 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 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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