RxDoctor Payments Data

Ke-Qin Hu, MD

Hepatology · Orange, CANPI 1548340607

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $187,946 of the $239,122 with a category attached, or 78.6%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 55.7% of the total.

$239,122in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 295 payments — averaging $810.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$133K
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$58K
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$37K
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$10K
  • GSK$240
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$177
  • plus $129 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$23,74810%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$187,94679%
  • Travel & lodging$17,7497%
  • Food & beverage$9,6804%

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

$239,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 36 hepatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$105,085
Medicare patients
603
Services billed
1,066

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
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide352$535,835
XifaxanRifaximin41$165,928
RezdiffraResmetirom17$65,212
Ursodiol92$12,422
BaracludeEntecavir12$11,190
Entecavir84$9,217
PrografTacrolimus16$7,578
Lactulose48$2,939
Tacrolimus30$1,986
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate17$1,765
Mycophenolate Mofetil33$1,552
Azathioprine36$1,052
ConstuloseLactulose35$880
Spironolactone31$442
Furosemide39$210

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
GileadVemlidy$133,240$535,835352 claims
Madrigal PharmaceuticalsRezdiffra$36,913$65,21217 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 85th percentile of 36 hepatology providers in California.

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