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Estelita Carandang, MD

Internal Medicine · San Jose, CANPI 1255473757

Payments from drug & device makers

$209in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $23.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$127
  • Johnson & Johnson$28
  • AbbVie$16
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$16
  • Novartis$12
  • Clarus Therapeutics Inc.$10

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$209100%

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

19
20
21

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

$209 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$123,535
Medicare patients
236
Services billed
938

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
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate26$25,511
EliquisApixaban13$21,429
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$19,388
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$11,943
XareltoRivaroxaban11$11,217
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate14$8,930
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl18$8,084
Risperidone OdtRisperidone11$4,014
Icosapent Ethyl21$3,202
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate12$2,943
Lacosamide17$2,194
Colchicine31$2,120
Levothyroxine Sodium104$1,864
Pravastatin Sodium205$1,848
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate40$1,825

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$28$11,21711 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 50th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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