RxDoctor Payments Data

Karl Sun, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · la Mesa, CANPI 1235131061

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,764in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 230 payments — averaging $20.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$708
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$588
  • Abbott$355
  • Johnson & Johnson$266
  • Amgen$243
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$226
  • plus $2K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2004%
  • Food & beverage$4,37092%
  • Education$1944%

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

$4,764 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$363,407
Medicare patients
384
Services billed
4,487

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
EliquisApixaban123$131,421
XareltoRivaroxaban42$44,391
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$19,568
MultaqDronedarone Hcl15$13,343
Clonidine43$3,740
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl94$3,116
Ranolazine ErRanolazine23$3,100
Ezetimibe24$1,472
Metoprolol Succinate98$1,348
Amlodipine Besylate183$1,292
Losartan Potassium107$964
Valsartan34$959
Nebivolol Hcl21$906
Rosuvastatin Calcium60$778
Hydralazine Hcl50$770

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$186$131,421123 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$266$44,39142 claims
NovartisEntresto$708$19,56816 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$197$13,34315 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 60th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in la Mesa

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