RxDoctor Payments Data

David Gibson, MD

Rheumatology · Carmichael, CANPI 1437498276

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,317in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 112 payments — averaging $20.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$626
  • AstraZeneca$235
  • GSK$197
  • Amgen$195
  • UCB, Inc.$135
  • Johnson & Johnson$127
  • plus $802 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,317100%

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

$2,317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$24,449
Medicare patients
141
Services billed
351

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept137$1,012,095
RinvoqUpadacitinib67$467,353
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab38$431,638
EnbrelEtanercept22$178,849
Enbrel MiniEtanercept12$103,690
Humira PenAdalimumab13$91,616
OrenciaAbatacept13$73,075
XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate11$61,202
BenlystaBelimumab16$54,944
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate691$15,448
Leflunomide114$4,523
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium338$4,325
Sulfasalazine178$4,061
Colchicine17$3,533
Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine82$2,269

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
AbbVieRinvoq$626$467,35367 claims
AmgenEnbrel$195$178,84922 claims
PfizerXeljanz$45$61,20211 claims
GSKBenlysta$197$54,94416 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 50th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

Other rheumatology in Carmichael

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