RxDoctor Payments Data

Homer Lew, DO

Internal Medicine · Laguna Hills, CANPI 1154452142

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,736in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 148 payments — averaging $18.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$370
  • Bayer$228
  • Johnson & Johnson$213
  • AstraZeneca$187
  • AbbVie$180
  • Novartis$168
  • plus $1K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,736100%

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

$2,736 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$145,559
Medicare patients
204
Services billed
1,564

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
EliquisApixaban171$75,198
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$49,978
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate47$42,882
XareltoRivaroxaban45$41,547
XifaxanRifaximin20$24,220
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl11$14,022
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$11,765
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated30$10,763
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol20$10,279
TradjentaLinagliptin19$8,696
LinzessLinaclotide15$7,977
DiovanValsartan12$6,810
Levothyroxine Sodium485$6,226
Atorvastatin Calcium507$6,119
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan17$5,571

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, Premarin$53$85,961201 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$150$56,90458 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$187$49,97844 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Procrit$213$45,94971 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$120$24,22020 claims
NovartisDiovan, Entresto$168$12,38129 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$180$10,42269 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 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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