Dinesh Pokharel, MD
Internal Medicine · Gold River, CANPI 1114322716
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 12 payments — averaging $10,640 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA$109K
- AstraZeneca$19K
- Abbott$29
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$29100%
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.
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 10 | $108,680 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18,969 |
| Abbott | 1 | $29 |
How this compares
$127,678 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 48 | $75,795 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 72 | $46,696 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 48 | $36,004 |
| AlvescoCiclesonide | 136 | $21,010 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 27 | $17,293 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $16,463 |
| PradaxaDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 48 | $13,984 |
| ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase | 12 | $13,928 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 243 | $7,547 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 12 | $7,358 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 537 | $6,298 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 351 | $6,249 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 396 | $4,795 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 22 | $3,972 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 238 | $3,942 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Gold River
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
- Alexandra DrakakiSanta Monica$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.