RxDoctor Payments Data

Frank Chen, MD

Family Medicine · San Francisco, CANPI 1104010586

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,222in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $24.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$288
  • Merck$264
  • Novo Nordisk$226
  • AstraZeneca$213
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$211
  • GSK$179
  • plus $839 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,222100%

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

$2,222 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
$73,880
Medicare patients
133
Services billed
709

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol151$133,152
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf273$79,216
TradjentaLinagliptin93$73,284
EliquisApixaban78$69,576
XareltoRivaroxaban31$48,822
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide22$39,775
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$37,172
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl43$20,183
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf48$9,969
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl21$8,931
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate17$8,004
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide23$7,419
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$7,276
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog19$6,397
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide11$5,638

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, Stiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat, Spiriva Respimat$40$144,281197 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$213$133,152151 claims
GSKArexvy, Shingrix, Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta$179$98,759355 claims
PfizerEliquis$288$69,57678 claims
GileadVemlidy$173$39,77522 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.

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