RxDoctor Payments Data

John Schafer

Family Medicine · Sonoma, CANPI 1386605228

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,768in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $24.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$270
  • Spineology Inc.$215
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$190
  • Pfizer$158
  • Radius Health, Inc.$144
  • Vertiflex, Inc.$133
  • plus $658 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,763100%
  • Education$50%

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

$1,768 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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