RxDoctor Payments Data

Joshua Levy, MD

Rheumatology · Sherman Oaks, CANPI 1821191750

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,028in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 131 payments — averaging $23.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$2K
  • GSK$237
  • Novartis$210
  • UCB, Inc.$142
  • Boston Scientific$126
  • AbbVie$92
  • plus $453 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,97898%
  • Education$502%

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

$3,028 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,696
Medicare patients
24
Services billed
74

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
Enbrel MiniEtanercept45$322,286
RinvoqUpadacitinib39$239,508
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept12$87,214
Humira PenAdalimumab13$85,376
NeurontinGabapentin86$56,471
ForteoTeriparatide14$54,326
ProliaDenosumab18$28,214
LyricaPregabalin34$21,714
AravaLeflunomide14$19,280
CelebrexCelecoxib18$16,314
CymbaltaDuloxetine Hcl36$15,545
ProtonixPantoprazole Sodium28$11,592
Diclofenac Sodium218$10,671
PlaquenilHydroxychloroquine Sulfate11$8,257
AzulfidineSulfasalazine24$7,805

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
AbbVieRinvoq$92$239,50839 claims
Lilly USA, LLCForteo, Cymbalta$12$69,87150 claims
AmgenProlia$1,768$28,21418 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$15$1,31223 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 50th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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