RxDoctor Payments Data

Juan Arguello, MD

Gastroenterology · Laguna Niguel, CANPI 1255497228

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,671in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 202 payments — averaging $37.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Gilead$870
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$758
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$494
  • Johnson & Johnson$428
  • Merck$306
  • plus $3K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$290%
  • Food & beverage$7,642100%

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

$7,671 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$29,530
Medicare patients
84
Services billed
270

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala15$58,589
OzempicSemaglutide12$11,282
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates20$1,076
Pantoprazole Sodium60$1,036
Ezetimibe15$612
Levothyroxine Sodium42$520
Simvastatin43$504
Amitriptyline Hcl27$430
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine15$410
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide13$394
Escitalopram Oxalate19$386
Metformin Hcl30$314
Zolpidem Tartrate12$268
Tamsulosin Hcl12$222
Finasteride11$209

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
GileadBiktarvy$870$58,58915 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 70th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

Other gastroenterology in Laguna Niguel

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