RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Berger, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1669407680

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $474,712 of the $541,208 with a category attached, or 87.7%. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novo Nordisk at 49.9% of the total. Among endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$541,208in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 825 payments — averaging $656.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$270K
  • AstraZeneca$97K
  • Dexcom, Inc.$60K
  • Abbott$46K
  • Amgen$22K
  • Bayer$21K
  • plus $25K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,7772%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$474,71288%
  • Travel & lodging$40,5958%
  • Food & beverage$15,4963%
  • Education$6080%
  • Other$200%

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

$541,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 952 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$681,841
Medicare patients
1,173
Services billed
33,593

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
OzempicSemaglutide508$686,660
TrulicityDulaglutide165$265,428
JardianceEmpagliflozin158$206,109
MounjaroTirzepatide162$199,046
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol133$162,254
KerendiaFinerenone120$153,542
RybelsusSemaglutide55$96,888
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec123$84,377
Somatuline DepotLanreotide Acetate13$77,191
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate56$68,403
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab68$66,086
InvokanaCanagliflozin37$57,273
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium549$51,709
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin34$43,387
GenotropinSomatropin16$36,412

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, Rybelsus, Xultophy 100-3.6$269,973$816,165587 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro, Humalog, Lyumjev$1,064$488,785381 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr$98$231,918174 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$96,767$162,254133 claims
BayerKerendia$21,116$153,542120 claims
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, IncSomatuline Depot$19$77,19113 claims
MerckJanuvia$105$68,40356 claims
Johnson & JohnsonInvokana$7,370$57,27337 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$102$51,709549 claims
Mannkind CorporationAfrezza$14,000$33,30720 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 95th percentile of 952 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in California.

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