RxDoctor Payments Data

John Gurskis, MD

Anesthesiology · Long Beach, CANPI 1417010182

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,452in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $23.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$234
  • Tersera Therapeutics LLC$225
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$188
  • AstraZeneca$135
  • Forte Bio-pharma LLC$87
  • Pfizer$82
  • plus $501 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,43199%
  • Education$211%

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

$1,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,717 anesthesiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$288,352
Medicare patients
313
Services billed
2,183

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen304$8,924
Buprenorphine15$6,396
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen158$4,734
Oxycodone Hcl145$3,443
Lidocaine41$3,319
Duloxetine Hcl64$2,552
Fentanyl35$2,333
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate68$2,111
Gabapentin127$1,634
Morphine Sulfate28$996
Pregabalin26$798
Naloxone Hcl12$593
Tizanidine Hcl83$581
Methadone Hcl31$459
Doxepin Hcl29$445

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
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine, Morphine Sulfate$21$7,39243 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 90th percentile of 5,717 anesthesiology providers in California.

Other anesthesiology in Long Beach

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