RxDoctor Payments Data

Billy Zhang, MD

Internal Medicine · Irvine, CANPI 1871087957

Payments from drug & device makers

$841in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $22.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$178
  • Novo Nordisk$157
  • Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$139
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$112
  • LEO Pharma Inc.$61
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$43
  • plus $151 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$841100%

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

$841 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$37,487
Medicare patients
122
Services billed
438

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
OzempicSemaglutide37$55,968
RybelsusSemaglutide26$42,350
EliquisApixaban11$14,204
Rosuvastatin Calcium33$1,389
Atorvastatin Calcium59$666
Metformin Hcl20$378
Levothyroxine Sodium28$363
Tamsulosin Hcl22$328
Gabapentin36$275
Celecoxib14$257
Amlodipine Besylate28$246
Losartan Potassium24$241
Doxycycline Hyclate14$231
Enalapril Maleate12$177
Pantoprazole Sodium12$109

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$157$98,31863 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 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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