RxDoctor Payments Data

Henry Watson

Oakland, CANPI 1235142894

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,231in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 121 payments — averaging $18.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$626
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$281
  • AstraZeneca$251
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$185
  • Novo Nordisk$179
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$161
  • plus $550 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,204100%

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban17$13,002
Colchicine29$2,672
Potassium Chloride67$2,531
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate72$2,415
Diclofenac Sodium13$1,677
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate15$1,212
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate33$1,032
Verapamil SrVerapamil Hcl12$1,011
Gabapentin83$863
Bumetanide17$585
Amlodipine Besylate95$465
Tamsulosin Hcl42$395
Losartan Potassium47$308
Famotidine26$264
Olmesartan Medoxomil12$240

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
PfizerEliquis$51$13,00217 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$24$2,67229 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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