RxDoctor Payments Data

Lyle Kurtz, MD

Internal Medicine · Beverly Hills, CANPI 1780615617

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,507in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 362 payments — averaging $23.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$929
  • Lilly USA, LLC$688
  • Novartis$620
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$551
  • Amgen$542
  • AbbVie$488
  • plus $5K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,507100%

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

$8,507 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$233,996
Medicare patients
400
Services billed
2,764

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin105$143,631
OzempicSemaglutide89$141,746
MounjaroTirzepatide105$130,526
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol109$112,961
EliquisApixaban99$89,893
KerendiaFinerenone38$37,105
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam15$33,351
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium14$31,612
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl44$27,627
Praluent PenAlirocumab30$25,530
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab21$25,370
XareltoRivaroxaban17$20,543
Hydrocodone Bitartrate ErHydrocodone Bitartrate14$17,104
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide11$15,540
GemtesaVibegron20$11,394

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$226$143,631105 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$324$141,74689 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$688$130,526105 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$929$112,961109 claims
PfizerEliquis, Lipitor, Premarin, Paxlovid$457$104,288180 claims
BayerKerendia$469$37,10538 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$435$20,54317 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$76$11,39420 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi$100$8,23312 claims
NovartisDiovan$620$7,57011 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$116$6,40716 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$488$4,97652 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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