RxDoctor Payments Data

Farrokh Alemzadeh, MD

Internal Medicine · Irvine, CANPI 1528094828

Payments from drug & device makers

$719in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $21.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$172
  • Lilly USA, LLC$166
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$102
  • Novartis$79
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$79
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$60
  • plus $61 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$719100%

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.

How this compares

$719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$646,661
Medicare patients
369
Services billed
6,932

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin156$170,858
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl217$117,766
TrulicityDulaglutide94$107,176
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate83$97,708
EliquisApixaban65$59,020
LinzessLinaclotide54$52,122
Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin43$45,870
Praluent PenAlirocumab43$43,561
XareltoRivaroxaban38$40,113
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl40$38,699
OzempicSemaglutide42$38,363
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol42$31,214
MounjaroTirzepatide23$30,909
MyrbetriqMirabegron41$29,702
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab21$23,656

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 IngelheimJardiance, Trijardy Xr, Combivent Respimat, Synjardy Xr$79$246,472229 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$166$138,085117 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$24$31,21442 claims
AmgenProlia$172$22,61013 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere$21$15,16314 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 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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