RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Kleinman, MD

Internal Medicine · Tarzana, CANPI 1689605941

Payments from drug & device makers

$220,742in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 380 payments — averaging $580.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$110K
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$66K
  • GSK$18K
  • Dynavax Technologies Corporation$14K
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$4K
  • CSL Behring$2K
  • plus $6K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,20019%
  • Food & beverage$4,93980%
  • Education$621%

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

$220,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$219,885
Medicare patients
247
Services billed
3,014

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
EliquisApixaban103$98,840
MounjaroTirzepatide76$82,708
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol74$65,428
OzempicSemaglutide46$61,088
JardianceEmpagliflozin58$56,943
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate34$42,480
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase17$29,097
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter41$26,974
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab30$21,826
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium27$20,261
BelsomraSuvorexant39$18,309
TrulicityDulaglutide19$18,127
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl15$14,004
QuliptaAtogepant12$12,427
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole30$12,405

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, Premarin, Paxlovid$307$102,576178 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$163$100,83695 claims
MerckJanuvia, Belsomra, Janumet Xr$231$74,79388 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$237$65,42874 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$235$61,08846 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$53$56,94358 claims
AbbVieCreon, Qulipta, Synthroid$87$45,80378 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$18,092$26,97441 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$254$20,26127 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbyclor, Edarbi$117$13,71044 claims
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US IncQuviviq$19$5,82911 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 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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