RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Lim, MD

Internal Medicine · San Francisco, CANPI 1427130723

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,455in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 717 payments — averaging $24.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • GSK$1K
  • Pfizer$980
  • Novo Nordisk$858
  • plus $6K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$17,22099%
  • Education$2351%

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

$17,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$289,166
Medicare patients
373
Services billed
2,885

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
EliquisApixaban237$356,137
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate242$309,059
TradjentaLinagliptin226$257,478
JardianceEmpagliflozin151$192,778
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol124$152,724
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide68$82,734
MyrbetriqMirabegron59$67,116
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol65$50,872
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide68$49,054
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl26$38,674
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate74$31,441
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter24$30,834
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol18$27,022
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan25$24,868
BreynaBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate83$24,691

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 IngelheimTradjenta, Jardiance, Spiriva Respimat$2,753$532,991445 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Lagevrio (Eua)$415$356,516295 claims
PfizerEliquis$980$356,137237 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Breztri Aerosphere$3,329$211,187216 claims
GSKIncruse Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$1,314$100,252120 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$346$67,11659 claims
NovartisEntresto$324$24,86825 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$2,125$18,06520 claims
AbbVieLinzess$470$15,06712 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 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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