RxDoctor Payments Data

Arpita Desai, MD

Hematology & Oncology · San Francisco, CANPI 1609151125

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $20,066 of the $32,604 with a category attached, or 61.5%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exelixis Inc. at 41.4% of the total.

$32,604in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $417.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Exelixis Inc.$14K
  • AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$11K
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$3K
  • Merck$3K
  • Pfizer$544
  • Eisai Inc.$329
  • plus $202 from 1 others
$1,303,710in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 141 payments — averaging $9246.17 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.

  • Merck$1.1M
  • Exelixis Inc.$138K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$44K
  • Genentech, Inc.$29K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$20,06662%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,28016%
  • Travel & lodging$2,7929%
  • Food & beverage$4,42314%
  • Education$430%

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

$32,604 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,363 hematology & oncology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$526,422
Medicare patients
156
Services billed
10,452

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
CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate44$1,130,138
InlytaAxitinib35$750,175
FotivdaTivozanib Hcl12$342,996
WeliregBelzutifan12$339,337
XtandiEnzalutamide12$167,881
Abiraterone Acetate56$76,721
EliquisApixaban11$6,366
Prednisone47$293

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
Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx$13,501$1,130,13844 claims
PfizerInlyta, Eliquis$544$756,54246 claims
MerckWelireg$3,146$339,33712 claims
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLCAbiraterone Acetate$3,478$76,72156 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 1,363 hematology & oncology providers in California.

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