RxDoctor Payments Data

Brian Meyerhoff, MD

Internal Medicine · Escondido, CANPI 1467417717

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,514in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 121 payments — averaging $20.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$377
  • GSK$318
  • Lilly USA, LLC$318
  • Pfizer$221
  • Amgen$156
  • Novo Nordisk$120
  • plus $1K from 27 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,503100%
  • Gifts$120%

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

$2,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$133,364
Medicare patients
248
Services billed
1,850

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
EliquisApixaban181$250,311
JardianceEmpagliflozin58$95,127
XareltoRivaroxaban53$72,744
MounjaroTirzepatide32$47,124
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate36$45,169
Praluent PenAlirocumab32$33,131
OzempicSemaglutide20$29,323
LinzessLinaclotide16$14,175
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab13$9,513
RestasisCyclosporine17$8,038
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen137$6,241
Atorvastatin Calcium652$6,168
Rosuvastatin Calcium258$5,248
Levothyroxine Sodium384$4,357
Omeprazole196$3,449

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$221$250,311181 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$104$95,12758 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$48$72,74453 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$318$47,12432 claims
MerckJanuvia$47$45,16936 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$120$29,32320 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 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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