RxDoctor Payments Data

Arpee Yeretzian, MD

Family Medicine · la Quinta, CANPI 1114980562

Payments from drug & device makers

$334in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $18.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$54
  • AbbVie$53
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$46
  • Merck$32
  • Pfizer$30
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$27
  • plus $92 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$334100%

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

19
20
21

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

$334 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$150,598
Medicare patients
577
Services billed
1,722

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
OzempicSemaglutide26$32,566
EliquisApixaban26$23,898
MounjaroTirzepatide21$21,897
RybelsusSemaglutide13$14,103
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab13$7,945
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir20$2,807
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium17$2,176
Valsartan62$2,138
Levothyroxine Sodium186$1,909
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro18$1,866
Gabapentin100$1,740
Sertraline Hcl29$1,680
Estradiol23$1,642
Escitalopram Oxalate141$1,629
Atorvastatin Calcium173$1,603

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, Rybelsus$54$46,67039 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$30$26,70546 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$13$21,89721 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$53$2,17617 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 55th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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