RxDoctor Payments Data

Feifan Tang

Monterey Park, CANPI 1568150035

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,291in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 204 payments — averaging $25.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$687
  • Bayer$538
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$480
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$474
  • Lilly USA, LLC$356
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$346
  • plus $2K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,291100%

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl295$113,044
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase36$77,590
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol111$72,393
ProliaDenosumab40$67,325
KerendiaFinerenone75$51,779
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg19$46,060
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate61$44,729
JardianceEmpagliflozin60$43,159
LinzessLinaclotide73$40,751
RybelsusSemaglutide36$40,556
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin64$40,171
OzempicSemaglutide34$39,190
EliquisApixaban56$38,578
RestasisCyclosporine39$27,876
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide14$23,143

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
AbbVieCreon, Linzess, Restasis$95$146,217148 claims
AmgenProlia, Evenity (2 Syringes)$307$113,38459 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$687$84,280130 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy, Synjardy Xr, Tradjenta$195$81,509120 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$42$79,74770 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$123$74,596116 claims
PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt$142$52,31568 claims
BayerKerendia$538$51,77975 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Havrix$231$25,70497 claims
GileadVemlidy$40$23,14314 claims
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Voquezna$346$19,50926 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$43$9,34414 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. There are too few providers in Californiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Where these figures come from

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