RxDoctor Payments Data

Melvin Coats, MD

Family Medicine · Whittier, CANPI 1376599159

Payments from drug & device makers

$557in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $23.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$116
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$99
  • Abbott$53
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$44
  • Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$43
  • Novo Nordisk$39
  • plus $162 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$557100%

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

$557 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,325
Medicare patients
114
Services billed
635

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
EliquisApixaban225$134,400
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate21$29,630
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$20,669
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium50$17,194
MounjaroTirzepatide11$11,547
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.11$9,489
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl16$7,727
Vancomycin Hcl55$5,985
Duloxetine Hcl84$4,512
Humulin 70-30Insulin Nph Hum/Reg Insulin Hm20$4,469
Fluticasone-VilanterolFluticasone/Vilanterol15$4,158
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen179$3,583
Midodrine Hcl29$3,182
Atorvastatin Calcium373$2,894
Potassium Chloride136$2,811

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$36$134,400225 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 65th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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