RxDoctor Payments Data

Douglas Sears

Encino, CANPI 1720062664

Payments from drug & device makers

$19,711in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 351 payments — averaging $56.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch Health US, LLC$5K
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$4K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Corium, LLC$2K
  • ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$894
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$597
  • plus $5K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$10,70454%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1501%
  • Food & beverage$8,72644%
  • Education$1311%

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Zyprexa ZydisOlanzapine13$58,521
Abilify MyciteAripiprazole25$42,362
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide33$33,015
VyvanseLisdexamfetamine Dimesylate29$17,496
BelsomraSuvorexant28$15,474
Dyanavel XrAmphetamine11$11,637
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate11$10,788
Lurasidone Hcl13$8,451
Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate34$8,405
Atomoxetine Hcl29$5,122
Paliperidone ErPaliperidone11$3,738
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole12$2,202
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine29$2,100
Oxcarbazepine16$1,728
KlonopinClonazepam12$1,625

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
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix, Vyvanse$335$50,51162 claims
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.Abilify Mycite$4,003$42,36225 claims
MerckBelsomra$22$15,47428 claims
Tris Pharma IncDyanavel Xr$342$11,63711 claims
PfizerNurtec Odt$62$10,78811 claims
Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl$53$85466 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. There are too few providers in Californiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Where these figures come from

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