RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Leach, MD

Otolaryngology · Murrieta, CANPI 1508151580

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 66.9% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $9,410 and has fallen 50.6% since, to $4,650 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$21,394in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 248 payments — averaging $86.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$14K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
  • GSK$626
  • Acclarent, Inc$617
  • Sanofi$540
  • Optinose US, Inc.$501
  • plus $3K from 30 others
$131,425in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $2857.07 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.

  • GSK$93K
  • Sanofi US Services Inc.$23K
  • Neurent Medical Limited$15K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$11,27553%
  • Travel & lodging$2,08710%
  • Food & beverage$7,92837%
  • Education$990%
  • Gifts$40%

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

$21,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,021 otolaryngology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$211,622
Medicare patients
484
Services billed
1,410

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
XhanceFluticasone Propionate16$9,701
Ipratropium Bromide237$6,870
Fluticasone Propionate81$1,360
Azelastine Hcl35$1,073
Betamethasone Dipropionate25$554
Gabapentin26$212
Amitriptyline Hcl11$169
Prednisone19$151
Mupirocin25$123
Famotidine11$73
Tramadol Hcl27$61
Montelukast Sodium11$44
Omeprazole12$14

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
Optinose US, Inc.Xhance$501$9,70116 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 95th percentile of 1,021 otolaryngology providers in California.

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