RxDoctor Payments Data

Gilberto Zavala, MD

Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1699700872

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,401in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 313 payments — averaging $20.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$1K
  • AbbVie$971
  • Novo Nordisk$958
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$420
  • Amgen$363
  • Novartis$315
  • plus $2K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,30298%
  • Education$992%

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

$6,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$50,266
Medicare patients
121
Services billed
581

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
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin12$7,379
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium13$1,183
Temazepam11$686
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen23$654
Nebivolol Hcl12$603
Amlodipine Besylate-BenazeprilAmlodipine Besylate/Benazepril14$586
Atorvastatin Calcium46$456
Levothyroxine Sodium31$431
Losartan Potassium21$328
Lisinopril18$295
Pantoprazole Sodium17$293
Alprazolam44$275
Gabapentin17$224
Lorazepam12$220
Amlodipine Besylate31$211

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 IngelheimGlyxambi$420$7,37912 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$971$1,18313 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 90th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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