RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Vahabzadeh-Hagh, MD

Otolaryngology · San Diego, CANPI 1346506920

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,228in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $132.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Aerin Medical Inc.$3K
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$195
  • Merz North America, Inc.$166
  • Stryker$149
  • Amgen$116
  • Integra Lifesciences Corporation$86
  • plus $232 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,50035%
  • Travel & lodging$1,37432%
  • Food & beverage$1,35432%

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

$4,228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,021 otolaryngology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$244,300
Medicare patients
308
Services billed
2,409

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
Famotidine201$2,714
Ipratropium Bromide36$884
Omeprazole22$497
Fluticasone Propionate40$370
Amitriptyline Hcl17$152

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in San Diego

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Where these figures come from

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