RxDoctor Payments Data

Hoang Nguyen, MD

Internal Medicine · Fountain Valley, CANPI 1457329179

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,078,261in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 170 payments — averaging $6342.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$535K
  • Regeneron$335K
  • GSK$207K
  • AbbVie$544
  • Johnson & Johnson$360
  • Abiomed$267
  • plus $871 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,071100%

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

$1,078,261 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,825,238
Medicare patients
656
Services billed
51,940

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin355$310,687
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate249$240,272
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl317$174,541
Cyclosporine232$160,123
OzempicSemaglutide136$137,964
RestasisCyclosporine157$133,719
Colesevelam Hcl354$109,145
EliquisApixaban109$105,644
TradjentaLinagliptin112$101,269
MyrbetriqMirabegron120$83,047
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole153$69,308
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase63$59,014
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol55$57,552
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide29$42,511
Icosapent Ethyl195$42,033

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
AbbVieRestasis, Creon, Linzess$544$233,132271 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$157$137,964136 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$19$83,047120 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Brilinta$56$79,94090 claims
GileadVemlidy$125$42,51129 claims
AmgenProlia$125$18,46811 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$360$17,02515 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$206,703$9,98116 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 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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