RxDoctor Payments Data

Mary Kalafut, MD

Neurology · la Jolla, CANPI 1720048663

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,008in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 440 payments — averaging $27.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$4K
  • AbbVie$3K
  • UCB, Inc.$430
  • Amgen$409
  • Lundbeck LLC$406
  • GE HealthCare$372
  • plus $4K from 42 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6007%
  • Food & beverage$7,79493%

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

$12,008 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,996 neurology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$298,851
Medicare patients
1,714
Services billed
1,946

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
EliquisApixaban21$21,362
Gabapentin103$2,912
RivastigmineRivastigmine Tartrate27$2,206
Donepezil Hcl144$1,686
Memantine Hcl17$1,564
Lacosamide29$1,427
Lamotrigine ErLamotrigine12$1,109
Levetiracetam41$1,038
Lamotrigine53$953
Duloxetine Hcl40$811
Pregabalin21$810
Oxcarbazepine24$672
Rosuvastatin Calcium31$539
Quetiapine Fumarate11$492
Nortriptyline Hcl28$477

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
PfizerEliquis$353$21,36221 claims
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$166$31120 claims
Lilly USA, LLCOlanzapine$206$30120 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 1,996 neurology providers in California.

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