RxDoctor Payments Data

Eliot Light, MD

Family Medicine · Pacific Grove, CANPI 1942382577

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,841in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 145 payments — averaging $12.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Pfizer$258
  • GSK$245
  • Abbott$182
  • Boston Scientific$58
  • Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.$18

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$24513%
  • Food & beverage$1,59086%
  • Education$70%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie(2 entities)112$1,081
Pfizer15$258
GSK2$245
Abbott14$182
Boston Scientific1$58
Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$18

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

$1,841 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$163,061
Medicare patients
290
Services billed
2,115

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
EliquisApixaban33$36,403
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate29$28,945
MounjaroTirzepatide21$28,445
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$27,864
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase11$26,636
RybelsusSemaglutide17$17,346
MyrbetriqMirabegron23$13,805
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$8,308
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm12$8,044
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol19$7,884
Testosterone17$4,979
Mesalamine ErMesalamine11$4,925
Rosuvastatin Calcium204$4,752
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl25$4,745
Pulmicort FlexhalerBudesonide14$4,568

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, Paxlovid$258$39,26259 claims
AbbVieCreon$1,081$26,63611 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$245$16,19232 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 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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