RxDoctor Payments Data

Bruce Stark, MD

Internal Medicine · Burbank, CANPI 1902801301

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,516in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 329 payments — averaging $25.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$1K
  • AbbVie$820
  • Amgen$703
  • Merck$393
  • Optinose US, Inc.$387
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$352
  • plus $4K from 48 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,20014%
  • Food & beverage$7,31086%
  • Education$60%

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

$8,516 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
$189,877
Medicare patients
250
Services billed
5,380

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
OzempicSemaglutide45$44,323
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam12$24,768
EliquisApixaban16$21,238
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl91$18,595
MounjaroTirzepatide17$17,991
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen517$14,491
ZtlidoLidocaine13$14,113
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$14,009
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter19$12,987
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate19$10,020
MyrbetriqMirabegron17$7,653
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl13$7,311
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$6,803
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen211$6,214
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide12$5,935

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$114$44,32345 claims
GileadDescovy$329$24,76812 claims
PfizerEliquis$138$21,23816 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$176$17,99117 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido$295$14,11313 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$103$12,98719 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$154$11,70727 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$56$10,02019 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$112$5,93512 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$820$3,15551 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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