RxDoctor Payments Data

Jina Sohn, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Los Angeles, CANPI 1558420760

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,844in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $84.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$3K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$1K
  • Medtronic$742
  • Boston Scientific$394
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$392
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$258
  • plus $694 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,66924%
  • Food & beverage$5,17476%
  • Education$10%

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

$6,844 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$216,092
Medicare patients
1,774
Services billed
3,782

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin144$143,810
EliquisApixaban90$88,894
OzempicSemaglutide72$71,993
XareltoRivaroxaban94$68,070
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan50$43,386
Praluent PenAlirocumab39$19,798
MounjaroTirzepatide21$19,572
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab25$16,191
MultaqDronedarone Hcl11$11,755
CorlanorIvabradine Hcl13$10,453
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$3,805
Metoprolol Succinate184$2,391
Losartan Potassium170$1,998
Spironolactone146$1,463
Nifedipine ErNifedipine24$1,304

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$122$88,89490 claims
NovartisEntresto$135$43,38650 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 65th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Los Angeles

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