RxDoctor Payments Data

Louis Scarcella, MD

Internal Medicine · Laguna Hills, CANPI 1821052598

Payments from drug & device makers

$370in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $21.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$81
  • Boston Scientific$67
  • Johnson & Johnson$50
  • AstraZeneca$46
  • AbbVie$39
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$16
  • plus $70 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$370100%

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

$370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$201,627
Medicare patients
352
Services billed
2,237

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
EliquisApixaban76$60,537
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$31,176
TrulicityDulaglutide13$20,596
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter23$19,891
XareltoRivaroxaban19$15,615
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr31$11,009
GemtesaVibegron11$6,817
TradjentaLinagliptin11$5,675
DuleraMometasone/Formoterol14$4,607
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol11$4,311
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium58$4,103
Icosapent Ethyl13$3,215
CrestorRosuvastatin Calcium12$3,152
Atorvastatin Calcium263$2,763
Levothyroxine Sodium230$2,735

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$81$35,21065 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$50$15,61519 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$39$4,10358 claims
AstraZenecaCrestor$46$3,15212 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 60th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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