RxDoctor Payments Data

Erica Ruiz, MD

Family Medicine · la Quinta, CANPI 1215191184

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,694in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $24.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$826
  • AbbVie$339
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$125
  • Amgen$122
  • Bayer$121
  • Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$73
  • plus $88 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,694100%

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

$1,694 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
$104,750
Medicare patients
122
Services billed
1,898

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
OzempicSemaglutide91$97,028
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol59$72,350
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe26$25,844
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate12$18,402
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol24$15,401
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$4,964
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate83$2,981
Montelukast Sodium179$2,867
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium30$2,160
Fluticasone Propionate82$2,075
Clonidine23$1,995
Levothyroxine Sodium148$1,654
Losartan Potassium134$1,430
Atorvastatin Calcium76$1,132
Amlodipine Besylate107$984

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$826$97,02891 claims
PfizerNurtec Odt$20$18,40212 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$339$2,16030 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.

Other family medicine in la Quinta

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