RxDoctor Payments Data

Lola Steinbaum, MD

Family Medicine · Pacific Grove, CANPI 1568681526

Payments from drug & device makers

$950in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $19.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$322
  • Novo Nordisk$235
  • AbbVie$155
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$87
  • Amgen$56
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$39
  • plus $57 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$93398%
  • Other$182%

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

$950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$7,632
Medicare patients
24
Services billed
68

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
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium13$10,692
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe11$8,787
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl22$8,305
Ezetimibe115$3,716
Liothyronine Sodium32$2,043
Nebivolol Hcl28$1,820
Rosuvastatin Calcium114$1,693
Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol16$1,626
Celecoxib13$1,443
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl36$1,307
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium23$1,197
ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized26$1,112
Levothyroxine Sodium78$940
Olmesartan Medoxomil28$685
Esomeprazole Magnesium13$585

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
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$18$10,69213 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$87$8,78711 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$155$1,19723 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 70th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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