RxDoctor Payments Data

Ashok Melvani, MD

Family Medicine · Victorville, CANPI 1447334099

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,991in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 229 payments — averaging $43.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Empire Medical, Inc$1K
  • Abbott$823
  • Pfizer$378
  • plus $3K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,20012%
  • Travel & lodging$2813%
  • Food & beverage$7,31073%
  • Education$1,20012%

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.

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

$9,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$12,378
Medicare patients
39
Services billed
119

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
OzempicSemaglutide143$162,911
EliquisApixaban123$104,640
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate29$33,151
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol32$30,504
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$28,317
XareltoRivaroxaban37$26,765
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter29$21,005
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate16$15,349
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate322$10,523
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate16$9,977
Qvar RedihalerBeclomethasone Dipropionate28$7,396
Fluticasone Propionate HfaFluticasone Propionate29$7,247
MyrbetriqMirabegron13$5,630
BrilintaTicagrelor13$5,617
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol31$5,378

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$1,237$162,911143 claims
PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt, Premarin$378$124,072151 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat$245$38,29443 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$1,269$36,12145 claims
MerckJanuvia$284$33,15129 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$92$26,76537 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$222$21,00529 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Qvar Redihaler$119$7,39628 claims
Lilly USA, LLCHumulin N$337$2,06011 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$28$2,00214 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 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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