RxDoctor Payments Data

Arthur Kingsbury, MD

Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1144216284

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,314in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $18.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$197
  • Amgen$193
  • GSK$131
  • Johnson & Johnson$116
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$88
  • AbbVie$86
  • plus $503 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,314100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$100,982
Medicare patients
283
Services billed
1,130

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
TrulicityDulaglutide55$61,839
EliquisApixaban48$42,299
OzempicSemaglutide16$21,878
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol21$18,260
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$16,358
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide20$11,373
Atorvastatin Calcium305$3,163
Nebivolol Hcl21$3,029
Rosuvastatin Calcium205$2,485
Gabapentin98$2,229
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate83$1,954
Tamsulosin Hcl109$1,822
Levothyroxine Sodium143$1,821
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium23$1,411
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol12$1,233

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
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$14$61,83955 claims
PfizerEliquis$46$42,29948 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$32$18,26021 claims
Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat$18$11,37320 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$86$1,41123 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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