Charanjit Sandhu, MD
Internal Medicine · Sacramento, CANPI 1275500068
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $20.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$485
- Pfizer$241
- Boehringer Ingelheim$130
- Lilly USA, LLC$112
- Merck$103
- Exact Sciences$101
- plus $560 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,732100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 21 | $485 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $241 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $130 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $112 |
| Merck | 6 | $103 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $101 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $98 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $94 |
| Novartis | 3 | $72 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $44 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $35 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,732 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 38 | $50,174 |
| EliquisApixaban | 20 | $17,865 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 25 | $13,322 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 12 | $11,328 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 366 | $6,071 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 27 | $5,542 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 396 | $5,129 |
| Losartan Potassium | 394 | $4,917 |
| Niacin ErNiacin | 28 | $4,383 |
| Simvastatin | 293 | $3,008 |
| FenofibrateFenofibrate Nanocrystallized | 68 | $2,903 |
| Metformin Hcl | 201 | $2,575 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 153 | $2,548 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 20 | $2,473 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 152 | $2,451 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| MerckJanuvia | $103 | $50,17438 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $241 | $17,86520 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $485 | $13,32225 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta | $130 | $11,32812 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $98 | $1,54016 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCHumulin 70-30 | $112 | $72117 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 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Sacramento
- Douglas YoungSacramento$4M
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.