RxDoctor Payments Data

Eddie Lam, MD

Internal Medicine · Alhambra, CANPI 1518969971

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,500in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 164 payments — averaging $21.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$740
  • Bayer$395
  • Lilly USA, LLC$337
  • GSK$302
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$285
  • AstraZeneca$215
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,500100%

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

$3,500 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,913
Medicare patients
223
Services billed
547

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol41$36,228
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$34,035
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate23$20,072
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl37$19,634
EliquisApixaban17$17,742
TradjentaLinagliptin16$10,361
Icosapent Ethyl17$4,306
Atorvastatin Calcium259$3,232
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters46$2,916
Losartan Potassium210$2,802
Pravastatin Sodium102$1,863
Amlodipine Besylate234$1,446
Olmesartan Medoxomil74$1,407
Raloxifene Hcl26$1,260
Memantine Hcl31$1,130

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$285$44,39645 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$215$36,22841 claims
MerckJanuvia$44$20,07223 claims
PfizerEliquis$42$17,74217 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 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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