RxDoctor Payments Data

Lawrence Wang, MD

Dermatology · la Jolla, CANPI 1417920216

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,837in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 209 payments — averaging $23.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi$873
  • UCB, Inc.$716
  • AbbVie$593
  • Incyte Corporation$386
  • LEO Pharma Inc.$386
  • Pfizer$274
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,76599%
  • Education$721%

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.

How this compares

$4,837 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$413,830
Medicare patients
1,023
Services billed
6,173

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
OtezlaApremilast42$205,021
Tacrolimus58$7,390
Betamethasone Dipropionate91$3,791
Clobetasol Propionate52$2,939
Azelaic Acid19$2,504
Ketoconazole149$2,339
Desoximetasone28$1,466
Fluorouracil18$1,199
Doxycycline Hyclate34$1,161
Triamcinolone Acetonide88$1,069
Tretinoin24$1,049
Alclometasone Dipropionate24$1,001
Clindamycin Phosphate24$688
Fluocinonide14$543
Metronidazole16$435

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
AmgenOtezla$243$205,02142 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 65th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.

Other dermatology in la Jolla

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