RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Salberg, MD

Internal Medicine · Tarzana, CANPI 1023013349

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,119in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $19.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$238
  • Amgen$197
  • Johnson & Johnson$162
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$117
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$98
  • Merck$83
  • plus $224 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,119100%

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

19
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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

$1,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$227,936
Medicare patients
516
Services billed
4,950

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
OzempicSemaglutide82$103,665
EliquisApixaban67$71,732
MounjaroTirzepatide21$22,041
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$21,007
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$16,586
TradjentaLinagliptin16$11,904
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium123$9,397
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl14$9,376
Testosterone11$8,545
BrilintaTicagrelor12$7,485
Mesalamine15$6,440
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated11$6,186
Losartan Potassium312$5,633
Atorvastatin Calcium415$4,682
Levothyroxine Sodium409$3,949

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, Premarin, Paxlovid$46$80,653108 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$117$28,49029 claims
MerckJanuvia$83$21,00713 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$238$9,397123 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 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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