RxDoctor Payments Data

Brian Candell, MD

Internal Medicine · Orinda, CANPI 1164581575

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,104in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 363 payments — averaging $19.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$943
  • Novo Nordisk$837
  • Lilly USA, LLC$555
  • AbbVie$546
  • Insmed, Inc.$426
  • Johnson & Johnson$387
  • plus $3K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,06699%
  • Education$391%

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

$7,104 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
$361,862
Medicare patients
722
Services billed
3,274

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
EliquisApixaban131$127,543
JardianceEmpagliflozin74$99,490
OzempicSemaglutide59$80,941
XareltoRivaroxaban34$43,283
MounjaroTirzepatide27$28,146
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl16$25,440
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$22,040
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate38$13,385
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol28$11,187
Atorvastatin Calcium782$8,819
MyrbetriqMirabegron18$8,807
Praluent PenAlirocumab18$8,713
Levothyroxine Sodium367$6,721
AmbienZolpidem Tartrate11$6,635
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl84$6,452

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
PfizerEliquis, Premarin, Paxlovid$943$137,710220 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$294$99,49074 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$837$80,94159 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia$184$47,48029 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$387$43,28334 claims
GSKArnuity Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$284$30,17178 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$555$28,14627 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$77$8,80718 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$19$6,721367 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCAmbien$63$6,63511 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$235$5,62212 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$546$4,86966 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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