RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Gitter, MD

Family Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1487712865

Payments from drug & device makers

$852in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $25.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$225
  • AbbVie$144
  • Merz North America, Inc.$127
  • Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$113
  • New Horizon Medical Solutions$47
  • Novo Nordisk$41
  • plus $156 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$852100%

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

$852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$3,167
Medicare patients
16
Services billed
45

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
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate19$14,707
EliquisApixaban23$12,535
Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol19$1,794
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog14$1,130
Ultra-Fine Nano Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic12$837
ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized14$479
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate13$356
Omeprazole29$312
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl21$263
Amlodipine Besylate40$243
Atorvastatin Calcium41$222
Famotidine16$214
Levothyroxine Sodium23$176
Glipizide14$154
Fluticasone Propionate17$140

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
MerckJanuvia$23$14,70719 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 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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