RxDoctor Payments Data

James Sotis, MD

Family Medicine · Murrieta, CANPI 1912194804

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,016in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $23.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$258
  • GSK$206
  • Novo Nordisk$170
  • AstraZeneca$141
  • Lilly USA, LLC$73
  • Exact Sciences$66
  • plus $101 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,016100%

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

$1,016 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$87,249
Medicare patients
350
Services billed
1,282

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
EliquisApixaban121$136,013
OzempicSemaglutide88$104,067
JardianceEmpagliflozin97$96,179
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate47$62,462
XareltoRivaroxaban67$58,038
MounjaroTirzepatide37$39,626
TrulicityDulaglutide22$31,713
RybelsusSemaglutide23$27,098
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol27$15,132
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$11,629
BrilintaTicagrelor13$7,344
Levothyroxine Sodium505$6,388
Atorvastatin Calcium761$6,154
XanaxAlprazolam11$6,123
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium66$4,822

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$21$136,013121 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$170$131,165111 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$73$71,33959 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$206$15,13227 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Symbicort$141$11,63028 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$19$4,82266 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 70th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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