RxDoctor Payments Data

Julie Ma, MD

Internal Medicine · Pacific Palisades, CANPI 1306865688

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,369in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $23.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$376
  • Pfizer$318
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$84
  • Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$83
  • Eisai Inc.$64
  • Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$64
  • plus $380 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,369100%

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.

How this compares

$1,369 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$145,561
Medicare patients
316
Services billed
2,028

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
EliquisApixaban69$71,507
RybelsusSemaglutide25$38,988
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$22,958
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$17,450
XareltoRivaroxaban12$16,892
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab15$14,381
GemtesaVibegron16$12,889
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol13$5,108
Estradiol58$4,777
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium56$4,085
Atorvastatin Calcium250$2,968
Doxycycline Hyclate12$2,065
Losartan Potassium153$1,986
Gabapentin96$1,977
Levothyroxine Sodium119$1,781

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
PfizerEliquis$318$71,50769 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus$56$38,98825 claims
MerckJanuvia$54$17,45013 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$25$5,10813 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$376$4,08556 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 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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