RxDoctor Payments Data

Lily Chen, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Sacramento, CANPI 1861819815

Payments from drug & device makers

$74,267in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 339 payments — averaging $219.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$33K
  • Abbott$14K
  • Philips North America LLC$9K
  • Boston Scientific$5K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$2K
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
  • plus $10K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,53813%
  • Grants$41,44056%
  • Travel & lodging$4,1306%
  • Food & beverage$18,96726%
  • Education$1920%

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

$74,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$272,306
Medicare patients
1,058
Services billed
2,743

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
EliquisApixaban159$215,912
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan50$48,672
XareltoRivaroxaban17$28,078
Praluent PenAlirocumab20$14,229
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol13$10,301
Atorvastatin Calcium244$3,135
Metoprolol Succinate173$2,530
Rosuvastatin Calcium95$1,392
Amlodipine Besylate184$1,158
Losartan Potassium88$1,143
Valsartan21$973
Bisoprolol Fumarate33$884
Carvedilol72$658
Bumetanide12$568
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate51$561

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$193$215,912159 claims
NovartisEntresto$260$48,67250 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$30$28,07817 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$94$10,30113 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 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Sacramento

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