RxDoctor Payments Data

Josefina Trausch, MD

Internal Medicine · Chula Vista, CANPI 1295764421

Payments from drug & device makers

$419in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $22.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$164
  • Lilly USA, LLC$65
  • AstraZeneca$58
  • Novo Nordisk$52
  • GSK$29
  • Abbott$23
  • plus $28 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$419100%

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
23
24
25

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

$419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$171,244
Medicare patients
254
Services billed
1,799

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
OzempicSemaglutide61$93,812
JardianceEmpagliflozin46$60,294
TrulicityDulaglutide27$59,584
EliquisApixaban43$52,558
RybelsusSemaglutide17$33,711
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$29,024
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate12$16,324
Atorvastatin Calcium313$4,391
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl13$3,354
Gabapentin104$2,307
Fluticasone Propionate84$1,737
Losartan Potassium129$1,709
Levothyroxine Sodium132$1,691
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide99$1,655
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl37$1,478

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$52$127,52378 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$14$60,29446 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$65$59,58427 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$58$29,02427 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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