RxDoctor Payments Data

Lorenzo Suarez, MD

Family Medicine · Brawley, CANPI 1619935137

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,580in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 318 payments — averaging $17.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • GSK$380
  • AstraZeneca$369
  • Corcept Therapeutics$351
  • Lilly USA, LLC$321
  • Merck$252
  • plus $3K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,53899%
  • Education$421%

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

$5,580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,249,453
Medicare patients
1,443
Services billed
24,685

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
OzempicSemaglutide231$232,160
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol216$185,341
TrulicityDulaglutide101$119,727
RybelsusSemaglutide106$118,965
EliquisApixaban129$116,797
JardianceEmpagliflozin112$104,327
XareltoRivaroxaban98$99,888
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate96$79,227
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog170$64,181
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan58$57,433
LinzessLinaclotide77$55,621
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide45$53,336
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter47$41,119
ProliaDenosumab22$36,301
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl28$35,640

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, Rybelsus$227$351,125337 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$369$185,341216 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$321$154,475133 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$98$131,773146 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$252$122,783141 claims
PfizerEliquis$132$116,797129 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,078$99,88898 claims
NovartisEntresto$214$57,43358 claims
AbbVieLinzess$233$55,62177 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$24$53,33645 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$380$41,11947 claims
AmgenProlia$207$36,30122 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 90th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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