RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Leibowitz

Internal Medicine · Long Beach, CANPI 1144352907

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,577 of the $4,928 with a category attached, or 72.6%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Astrazeneca UK Limited at 47.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,417 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $459 in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$4,928in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $205.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$2K
  • Pfizer$2K
  • Corcept Therapeutics$459
  • Novo Nordisk$32
$7,650,837in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 877 payments — averaging $8723.87 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$3.3M
  • Eli Lilly$1.6M
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$976K
  • Sanofi US Services Inc.$542K
  • AstraZeneca$267K
  • Regeneron$185K
  • plus $691K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2004%
  • Travel & lodging$3,57773%
  • Food & beverage$1,10022%
  • Education$321%
  • Gifts$200%

General payments by program year

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21
22
23

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Astrazeneca UK Limited11$2,321
Pfizer9$2,117
Corcept Therapeutics3$459
Novo Nordisk1$32

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

$4,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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