RxDoctor Payments Data

Catherine Koper, MD

Internal Medicine · Newport Beach, CANPI 1245466929

Payments from drug & device makers

$464in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $24.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$242
  • Gilead$97
  • Insmed, Inc.$46
  • Shionogi Inc$41
  • AbbVie$26
  • Boston Scientific$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$464100%

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

19
22
23
24
25

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

$464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$227,919
Medicare patients
309
Services billed
1,971

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
Daptomycin90$93,253
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium148$63,986
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi15$57,080
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala12$47,006
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine12$37,022
Meropenem164$19,992
Cefepime Hcl80$18,442
Vancomycin Hcl99$13,485
Fosfomycin Tromethamine54$8,473
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium38$4,763
Cefazolin Sodium55$3,799
Doxycycline Hyclate98$1,799
Ampicillin-SulbactamAmpicillin Sod/Sulbactam Sod13$1,640
Cephalexin17$1,625
Fluconazole69$1,503

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
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTriumeq, Dovato$242$94,10127 claims
GileadBiktarvy$97$47,00612 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 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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