RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Ekkens, MD

General Practice · Chico, CANPI 1962433839

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,320in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 530 payments — averaging $15.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$934
  • Johnson & Johnson$693
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$489
  • GSK$244
  • plus $3K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,320100%

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

$8,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 12,963 general practice providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$282,220
Medicare patients
287
Services billed
7,422

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
EliquisApixaban41$34,340
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl167$29,122
JardianceEmpagliflozin32$27,083
ZubsolvBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl20$17,331
MyrbetriqMirabegron38$17,169
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen543$15,022
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl13$10,861
Oxycodone Hcl207$7,443
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl12$6,546
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf18$5,625
Gabapentin255$4,736
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine39$4,103
Aripiprazole43$3,836
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen132$3,740
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf15$3,306

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$65$34,34041 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$211$27,08332 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$53$17,16938 claims
GSKArexvy, Shingrix$244$8,93133 claims
MerckJanumet Xr$191$6,54612 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,865$1,12017 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 12,963 general practice providers in California.

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