RxDoctor Payments Data

Herman Kagan, MD

Internal Medicine · Sherman Oaks, CANPI 1134276579

Payments from drug & device makers

$298in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $24.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$82
  • GSK$54
  • Pfizer$47
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$28
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$24
  • AbbVie$22
  • plus $40 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$298100%

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

$298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$96,832
Medicare patients
193
Services billed
1,480

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
EliquisApixaban74$66,194
XareltoRivaroxaban21$28,292
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$20,399
OzempicSemaglutide20$19,041
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol24$11,280
CequaCyclosporine12$7,265
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium67$5,614
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir25$5,603
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$5,096
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated11$4,126
Atorvastatin Calcium313$2,582
Duloxetine Hcl54$1,723
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl34$1,715
Estradiol18$1,306
Valsartan51$1,108

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, Paxlovid, Premarin$47$75,923110 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$54$11,28024 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$22$5,61467 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 60th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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