RxDoctor Payments Data

Kamran Kalpari, MD

Internal Medicine · West Hollywood, CANPI 1053336974

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,147in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 391 payments — averaging $23.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
  • Pfizer$649
  • Lilly USA, LLC$453
  • AstraZeneca$415
  • plus $3K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,20013%
  • Food & beverage$7,91787%
  • Education$300%

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

$9,147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,889,056
Medicare patients
1,050
Services billed
25,490

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
OzempicSemaglutide256$246,431
EliquisApixaban137$125,474
ForteoTeriparatide20$82,342
LinzessLinaclotide83$74,310
JardianceEmpagliflozin60$68,447
ProliaDenosumab39$65,516
MounjaroTirzepatide47$58,446
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl109$43,239
Metformin Er GastricMetformin Hcl13$42,377
MyrbetriqMirabegron47$41,618
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab53$41,504
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi11$40,135
AtivanLorazepam13$36,004
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate37$35,098
TradjentaLinagliptin33$33,193

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, Wegovy$205$261,352267 claims
Lilly USA, LLCForteo, Mounjaro, Trulicity$453$158,08183 claims
PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt, Paxlovid$649$152,448182 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$136$101,64093 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Restasis, Synthroid$1,946$91,690181 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$87$68,25077 claims
AmgenProlia$1,300$65,51639 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$62$41,61847 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTriumeq$53$40,13511 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta$96$37,15186 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Crestor$415$25,95928 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix, Dexilant$22$23,80645 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 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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