RxDoctor Payments Data

Ishtleen Bhatia, MD

Internal Medicine · Turlock, CANPI 1851649396

Payments from drug & device makers

$440in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $18.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$123
  • Johnson & Johnson$80
  • Lilly USA, LLC$43
  • AstraZeneca$37
  • Exact Sciences$33
  • Novo Nordisk$23
  • plus $102 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$440100%

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

$440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$117,310
Medicare patients
483
Services billed
2,351

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$53,455
EliquisApixaban98$51,109
OzempicSemaglutide31$33,560
TrulicityDulaglutide11$22,530
TradjentaLinagliptin16$9,177
Levothyroxine Sodium215$3,135
Atorvastatin Calcium275$3,028
Gabapentin152$2,940
Valsartan55$2,251
Metoprolol Succinate96$1,738
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog21$1,688
Rosuvastatin Calcium92$1,682
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate44$1,637
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl43$1,538
Cephalexin21$1,457

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$123$52,538109 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$23$33,56031 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$43$22,53011 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 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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