RxDoctor Payments Data

Hyong Kim, MD

Internal Medicine · la Jolla, CANPI 1598780066

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,092,630in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 817 payments — averaging $1337.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$368K
  • Merck$274K
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd$209K
  • Bayer$154K
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$73K
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$8K
  • plus $7K from 3 others
$2,320in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $2320.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • United Therapeutics Corporation$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$276,66127%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$533,56352%
  • Travel & lodging$194,12419%
  • Food & beverage$15,6982%
  • Education$220%

General payments by program year

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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

$1,092,630 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

See all internal medicine providers in California

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$28,213
Medicare patients
70
Services billed
225

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
OpsumitMacitentan260$3,224,170
UptraviSelexipag114$2,372,426
AdempasRiociguat138$1,758,260
WinrevairSotatercept-Csrk14$273,908
AdcircaTadalafil13$53,291
Tadalafil47$50,629
Ambrisentan16$38,084
Sildenafil Citrate43$6,366
Bumetanide19$1,359
Spironolactone28$331
Furosemide21$110

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
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit, Uptravi$368,030$5,596,596374 claims
BayerAdempas$154,123$1,758,260138 claims
MerckWinrevair$274,170$273,90814 claims
United Therapeutics CorporationAdcirca$8,117$53,29113 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.

Other internal medicine in la Jolla

See the full list for California

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →