RxDoctor Payments Data

Emery Chang, MD

Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1649221383

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,736in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $44.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$645
  • BD$473
  • Intuitive Surgical$296
  • Gilead$114
  • Janssen Products, LP$100
  • Johnson & Johnson$37
  • plus $71 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$47327%
  • Food & beverage$95255%
  • Education$31118%

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.

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

$1,736 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$29,888
Medicare patients
58
Services billed
384

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala121$518,471
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine96$280,442
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen27$128,046
IsentressRaltegravir Potassium22$79,848
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi21$76,286
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium25$53,163
EdurantRilpivirine Hcl29$46,608
PifeltroDoravirine13$22,785
Darunavir15$18,734
XareltoRivaroxaban12$8,164
MyrbetriqMirabegron12$4,885
Nevirapine ErNevirapine12$2,856
Atorvastatin Calcium172$1,456
Lamivudine12$1,030
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl17$636

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
GileadBiktarvy, Genvoya$114$646,517148 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato, Triumeq, Tivicay$645$409,891142 claims
MerckIsentress, Pifeltro$17$102,63335 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$37$8,16412 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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