RxDoctor Payments Data

Azita Fakheri, MD

Internal Medicine · Tarzana, CANPI 1669410270

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,272in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 165 payments — averaging $31.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$650
  • Incyte Corporation$549
  • Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$537
  • Biofrontera Inc.$515
  • Amgen$477
  • Pfizer$340
  • plus $2K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$3507%
  • Food & beverage$4,80791%
  • Education$1152%

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

$5,272 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$278,127
Medicare patients
653
Services billed
2,580

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
OtezlaApremilast31$147,948
Clobetasol Propionate241$13,203
GemtesaVibegron15$10,904
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl22$8,094
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$7,429
LinzessLinaclotide13$6,325
Fluocinonide127$5,778
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol14$5,326
Ketoconazole219$4,962
Tacrolimus19$3,450
Calcipotriene13$2,603
Metronidazole33$2,148
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip111$2,110
Betamethasone Dipropionate24$898
Atorvastatin Calcium109$755

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
AmgenOtezla$477$147,94831 claims
AbbVieLinzess$305$6,32513 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 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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