RxDoctor Payments Data

Jason Boutros, MD

Internal Medicine · Pasadena, CANPI 1942243563

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,998in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 873 payments — averaging $18.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$879
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$697
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$680
  • plus $8K from 47 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,2008%
  • Food & beverage$14,79292%
  • Education$60%

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

$15,998 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$691,478
Medicare patients
444
Services billed
7,534

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
OzempicSemaglutide135$141,027
LinzessLinaclotide232$121,776
EliquisApixaban203$103,203
Diclofenac Sodium225$96,236
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol135$82,765
JardianceEmpagliflozin118$78,967
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol130$72,029
RybelsusSemaglutide71$62,752
MounjaroTirzepatide59$61,708
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate56$33,348
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres37$30,318
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl87$24,877
TrulicityDulaglutide24$23,131
RexultiBrexpiprazole16$22,130
XareltoRivaroxaban43$20,772

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$601$203,780206 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Farxiga, Nexium$2,878$161,613290 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Namzaric$2,066$128,164243 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$680$96,600153 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$879$84,83983 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Steglatro$501$51,555101 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$141$22,13016 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$351$20,77243 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$370$17,07628 claims
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Voquezna$357$15,44725 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$697$10,30816 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$672$5,97011 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.

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