RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Burack, MD

Internal Medicine · Oakland, CANPI 1316967474

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $270,055 of the $378,197 with a category attached, or 71.4%. Gilead accounts for 72.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $157,365 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $632 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$378,197in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 461 payments — averaging $820.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$275K
  • Theratechnologies Inc.$36K
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$31K
  • Merck$19K
  • Janssen Products, LP$18K
  • Johnson & Johnson$74
$205,500in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $7339.29 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.

  • Gilead$206K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$59,31116%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$270,05571%
  • Travel & lodging$38,37210%
  • Food & beverage$10,3463%
  • Education$1130%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Gilead345$274,791
Theratechnologies Inc.43$35,826
Viiv Healthcare Company25$30,755
Merck24$18,971
Janssen Products, LP19$17,780
Johnson & Johnson5$74

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

$378,197 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
$72,657
Medicare patients
145
Services billed
453

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
RukobiaFostemsavir Tromethamine125$857,469
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala132$553,225
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine175$492,657
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium180$459,646
PifeltroDoravirine186$317,153
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf63$283,170
SunlencaLenacapavir Sodium13$201,839
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine37$170,427
PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat74$169,607
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam52$113,675
CabenuvaCabotegravir/Rilpivirine18$103,257
Darunavir68$71,041
Maraviroc67$54,812
XifaxanRifaximin13$40,137
OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala12$38,599

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
Viiv Healthcare CompanyRukobia, Dovato, Tivicay, Juluca, Cabenuva$30,755$2,083,455535 claims
GileadBiktarvy, Sunlenca, Descovy$274,791$868,739197 claims
MerckPifeltro$18,971$317,153186 claims
Janssen Products, LPSymtuza$17,780$283,17063 claims
Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix, Invokana, Xarelto$74$183,469100 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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