Dwain Rickertsen
Family Medicine · Yuba City, CANPI 1619165925
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 108 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,041 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $29 in 2023.
Across 108 payments — averaging $17.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$238
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$204
- Corcept Therapeutics$200
- Boehringer Ingelheim$153
- Novo Nordisk$144
- GSK$101
- plus $800 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,839100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $238 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $204 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 11 | $200 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $153 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $144 |
| GSK | 5 | $101 |
| Merck | 6 | $95 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $90 |
| Abbott | 5 | $71 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $71 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $54 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Bayer | 3 | $48 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $42 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,839 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Other family medicine in Yuba City
- Ronald HartYuba City$60K
- Sherly SoleimanEncino$1.2M
- Pamela KushnerLos Angeles$1.2M
- Sujata NarayanStanford$1.2M
- Jeffrey UngerChino$906K
- Alexander RivkinLos Angeles$866K
- Scott HowellLos Angeles$793K
- Derrick ButlerLos Angeles$692K
- Sandra CalmanMontara$589K
- Anthony JonesOakland$377K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.