RxDoctor Payments Data

Anne Luetkemeyer

Infectious Disease · San Francisco, CANPI 1346378940

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,182 of the $5,228 with a category attached, or 60.9%. Shionogi Inc accounts for 63.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,459, 4.4 times the $785 reported in 2020.

$5,228in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $248.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Shionogi Inc$3K
  • Merck$2K
  • Gilead$176
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$114
$633,331in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $7630.49 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.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$299K
  • GSK$139K
  • Merck$94K
  • Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$56K
  • Gilead$25K
  • Novartis$13K
  • plus $7K from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,18261%
  • Travel & lodging$1,27824%
  • Food & beverage$76815%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Shionogi Inc2$3,293
Merck16$1,645
Gilead2$176
Viiv Healthcare Company1$114

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

$5,228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala55$214,947
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium42$93,660
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine27$77,979
PifeltroDoravirine44$74,767
OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala13$52,309
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine12$37,502
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi11$37,385
Abilify MaintenaAripiprazole13$35,125
PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat13$28,971
Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate12$27,119
OzempicSemaglutide11$8,326
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$6,491
Praluent PenAlirocumab12$5,769
Lidocaine28$3,058
Varenicline Tartrate11$2,620

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
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTivicay, Dovato, Juluca, Triumeq$114$246,52692 claims
GileadBiktarvy$176$214,94755 claims
MerckPifeltro$1,645$74,76744 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 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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