RxDoctor Payments Data

Josh Weng, MD

Internal Medicine · Arcadia, CANPI 1043219678

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,509in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 613 payments — averaging $25.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$2K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Radius Health, Inc.$1K
  • Gilead$935
  • Lilly USA, LLC$909
  • plus $7K from 44 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$140%
  • Food & beverage$15,38999%
  • Education$1061%

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

$15,509 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
$833,232
Medicare patients
472
Services billed
10,754

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase230$290,697
EliquisApixaban328$211,490
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl427$198,900
JardianceEmpagliflozin216$187,425
TymlosAbaloparatide47$131,203
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate149$126,684
OzempicSemaglutide119$110,611
LinzessLinaclotide139$108,713
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg45$107,856
ProliaDenosumab55$91,884
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan94$90,810
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase25$76,137
Icosapent Ethyl250$74,525
Cyclosporine115$74,303
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol68$72,889

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
AbbVieCreon, Linzess, Restasis$1,623$471,342460 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$246$234,708277 claims
PfizerEliquis$667$211,490328 claims
AmgenEvenity (2 Syringes), Prolia$2,217$199,740100 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$425$157,307199 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$269$141,813142 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$1,277$131,20347 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Brilinta$1,671$101,172121 claims
NovartisEntresto$642$90,81094 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$23$76,13725 claims
Lilly USA, LLCForteo, Trulicity$909$74,22826 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$24$37,95553 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 Arcadia

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