RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Thorpe, MD

Family Medicine · Bakersfield, CANPI 1578666848

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,648in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $18.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$509
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$179
  • GSK$161
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$143
  • Novo Nordisk$142
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$91
  • plus $422 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,648100%

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

$1,648 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$36,747
Medicare patients
94
Services billed
444

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
EliquisApixaban16$25,898
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$18,400
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide13$4,783
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$2,867
Rosuvastatin Calcium96$1,683
Atorvastatin Calcium52$1,032
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen22$932
Levothyroxine Sodium68$872
Losartan Potassium71$769
Omeprazole41$719
Gabapentin32$664
Metformin Hcl55$518
Amlodipine Besylate43$514
Metoprolol Succinate41$507
Ezetimibe15$488

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$17$25,89816 claims
GSKIncruse Ellipta$161$4,78313 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 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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