RxDoctor Payments Data

Armando Cervantes, MD

Family Medicine · Salinas, CANPI 1306473434

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,180in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $21.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$236
  • Amgen$175
  • Lilly USA, LLC$158
  • Mylan Specialty L.p.$86
  • Merck$84
  • CMP Pharma, Inc.$81
  • plus $359 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,180100%

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.

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.

How this compares

$1,180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$11,303
Medicare patients
76
Services billed
112

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin163$201,351
OzempicSemaglutide48$63,560
MounjaroTirzepatide38$53,439
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate25$39,230
RybelsusSemaglutide16$35,052
TrulicityDulaglutide15$29,276
EliquisApixaban28$23,951
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$15,690
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter15$14,676
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin12$11,939
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$10,981
Atorvastatin Calcium531$6,296
Losartan Potassium230$2,985
Tamsulosin Hcl135$2,033
Levothyroxine Sodium123$1,961

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, Glyxambi$54$213,290175 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$236$98,61264 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$158$82,71553 claims
MerckJanuvia$84$39,23025 claims
PfizerEliquis$22$23,95128 claims
NovartisEntresto$28$15,69011 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$61$14,67615 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$75$10,98112 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 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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