RxDoctor Payments Data

David Lush, MD

Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1801823893

Payments from drug & device makers

$769in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $23.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$279
  • AstraZeneca$101
  • Exact Sciences$61
  • Novo Nordisk$55
  • AbbVie$35
  • Tersera Therapeutics LLC$33
  • plus $204 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$769100%

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

23
24
25

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

$769 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$100,214
Medicare patients
214
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
EliquisApixaban23$26,753
TrulicityDulaglutide15$14,232
Qnasl ChildrenBeclomethasone Dipropionate11$3,124
Atorvastatin Calcium188$1,738
Levothyroxine Sodium100$1,572
Amlodipine Besylate184$1,400
Losartan Potassium80$1,337
Tamsulosin Hcl53$1,252
Rosuvastatin Calcium106$1,237
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl23$828
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen27$746
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl20$715
Pantoprazole Sodium38$706
Omeprazole51$671
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium20$646

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$25$26,75323 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$21$14,23215 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$35$64620 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 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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