RxDoctor Payments Data

Lalita Tantisira, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · San Diego, CANPI 1508874298

Payments from drug & device makers

$620in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $36.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$442
  • Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC$47
  • Lilly USA, LLC$45
  • Evoke Pharma, Inc.$27
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$23
  • Vivus LLC$22
  • plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$620100%

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

$620 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 952 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$43,970
Medicare patients
213
Services billed
277

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
OzempicSemaglutide346$417,861
MounjaroTirzepatide138$206,287
TrulicityDulaglutide47$54,085
JardianceEmpagliflozin50$42,297
WegovySemaglutide28$36,232
Naltrexone Hcl79$3,218
Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl51$2,512
Topiramate177$1,514
Metformin Hcl188$1,272
Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic11$563
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron21$334
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl11$314
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl14$82

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$442$454,092374 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$45$260,372185 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 35th percentile of 952 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in California.

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