RxDoctor Payments Data

Ivan Nichols, MD

Family Medicine · Orange, CANPI 1609965417

Payments from drug & device makers

$334in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $18.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$112
  • Medtronic$46
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$38
  • Novo Nordisk$29
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$28
  • Pfizer$21
  • plus $61 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$124%
  • Food & beverage$32296%

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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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.

How this compares

$334 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$34,611
Medicare patients
117
Services billed
2,411

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
EliquisApixaban73$90,697
OzempicSemaglutide66$66,797
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine12$36,889
RybelsusSemaglutide28$36,678
TrulicityDulaglutide25$32,185
XareltoRivaroxaban14$18,181
MyrbetriqMirabegron13$8,060
Sildenafil Citrate25$5,794
GemtesaVibegron12$5,727
Atorvastatin Calcium370$4,458
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen184$3,490
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol16$3,447
Gabapentin111$2,794
Levothyroxine Sodium169$2,510
Memantine Hcl29$2,485

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$29$103,47594 claims
PfizerEliquis$21$90,69773 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$13$32,18525 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$38$8,06013 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 55th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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