RxDoctor Payments Data

David Kim, MD

Internal Medicine · Laguna Beach, CANPI 1861541633

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,594in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 287 payments — averaging $22.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • GSK$861
  • AbbVie$647
  • Lilly USA, LLC$470
  • AstraZeneca$333
  • plus $1K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,594100%

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

$6,594 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$80,254
Medicare patients
253
Services billed
741

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol41$27,494
EliquisApixaban27$25,161
XareltoRivaroxaban30$24,785
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate19$23,874
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$16,683
OzempicSemaglutide13$13,878
GemtesaVibegron21$10,623
MyrbetriqMirabegron17$9,695
Azelastine Hcl75$3,446
Losartan Potassium222$2,332
Levothyroxine Sodium204$2,095
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate80$1,929
Atorvastatin Calcium206$1,642
Tamsulosin Hcl63$1,571
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir15$1,429

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$333$27,49441 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$87$26,59042 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,806$24,78530 claims
MerckJanuvia$117$23,87419 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$305$16,68315 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$22$10,62321 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 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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