RxDoctor Payments Data

Frank Shin, MD

Internal Medicine · San Jose, CANPI 1003992264

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,573in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 101 payments — averaging $15.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$1K
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$165
  • Intuitive Surgical$95
  • Exact Sciences$22
  • Pfizer$17

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,54498%
  • Education$292%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Gilead90$1,275
Amarin Pharma, Inc.8$165
Intuitive Surgical1$95
Exact Sciences1$22
Pfizer1$17

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

$1,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,314
Medicare patients
255
Services billed
791

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 Phosphate38$46,645
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$35,194
ProliaDenosumab11$18,543
XareltoRivaroxaban19$14,745
TradjentaLinagliptin13$11,178
Atorvastatin Calcium626$5,710
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl11$4,788
Levothyroxine Sodium294$4,150
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$3,962
Glipizide ErGlipizide232$3,747
Losartan Potassium340$3,714
Amlodipine Besylate511$2,963
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol20$2,578
Icosapent Ethyl16$2,478
Metformin Hcl313$2,418

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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