RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Vanbuskirk, MD

Family Medicine · Encinitas, CANPI 1124123062

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,392in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $73.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$272
  • GSK$247
  • Johnson & Johnson$147
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$146
  • Pfizer$122
  • Merck$119
  • plus $339 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,392100%

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

$1,392 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$326,928
Medicare patients
523
Services billed
14,352

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
EliquisApixaban69$68,100
TrulicityDulaglutide17$28,609
XareltoRivaroxaban19$22,767
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan13$16,904
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide11$14,756
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$10,443
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres13$10,222
LinzessLinaclotide13$8,776
Atorvastatin Calcium775$6,892
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide12$6,013
Rosuvastatin Calcium314$4,393
Icosapent Ethyl19$3,986
Losartan Potassium267$2,943
Levothyroxine Sodium242$2,911
Testosterone12$2,620

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$122$68,10069 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$147$22,76719 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 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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