RxDoctor Payments Data

Jose Bautista, MD

Internal Medicine · Sanger, CANPI 1134119308

Payments from drug & device makers

$121,565in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 542 payments — averaging $224.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$92K
  • Pfizer$13K
  • Johnson & Johnson$9K
  • GSK$814
  • AstraZeneca$777
  • Novo Nordisk$771
  • plus $5K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3752%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$8,20047%
  • Travel & lodging$220%
  • Food & beverage$8,88951%
  • Education$1111%

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

$121,565 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
$176,111
Medicare patients
366
Services billed
3,094

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin563$674,150
MounjaroTirzepatide326$353,867
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate193$265,964
AustedoDeutetrabenazine13$192,213
OzempicSemaglutide193$173,645
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol143$161,133
RybelsusSemaglutide96$153,326
EliquisApixaban169$150,008
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter188$128,035
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl139$104,925
TradjentaLinagliptin79$94,491
XareltoRivaroxaban73$77,894
XifaxanRifaximin23$77,024
LinzessLinaclotide66$70,698
InvokanaCanagliflozin51$64,044

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy, Tradjenta$331$873,566781 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$390$403,557369 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$357$348,873285 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$771$326,970289 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo$36$192,21313 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$777$174,225191 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$12,935$163,594195 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$814$156,448250 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invokana$9,408$141,937124 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$97$77,02423 claims
AbbVieLinzess$476$70,69866 claims
NovartisEntresto$337$61,73971 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.

Other internal medicine in Sanger

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