RxDoctor Payments Data

David Lam, DO

Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1174996342

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,525in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $22.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$257
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$204
  • Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.$169
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$160
  • Lilly USA, LLC$133
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$129
  • plus $472 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,525100%

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

$1,525 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$72,791
Medicare patients
205
Services billed
714

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin49$44,718
EliquisApixaban34$27,579
TradjentaLinagliptin20$15,206
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$13,348
XareltoRivaroxaban20$10,890
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$8,502
Atorvastatin Calcium230$1,902
Diclofenac Sodium27$1,397
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate40$1,280
Losartan Potassium134$861
Lactulose13$829
Gabapentin66$722
Tamsulosin Hcl57$680
Metformin Hcl144$675
Labetalol Hcl18$538

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$129$59,92469 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.

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