RxDoctor Payments Data

Milena Shakhbazona, MD

Family Medicine · Torrance, CANPI 1043494313

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,399in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 180 payments — averaging $18.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$757
  • Pfizer$451
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$336
  • Novo Nordisk$259
  • GSK$242
  • Lilly USA, LLC$241
  • plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,32698%
  • Education$732%

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

$3,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$134,261
Medicare patients
396
Services billed
1,464

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin65$68,904
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol57$68,208
EliquisApixaban68$62,569
OzempicSemaglutide49$44,612
MyrbetriqMirabegron31$23,570
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate16$16,438
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl14$14,557
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated27$11,904
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$9,916
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf24$7,693
Losartan Potassium412$5,550
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium12$4,779
Levothyroxine Sodium333$4,291
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium74$4,253
Atorvastatin Calcium447$4,082

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, Premarin, Abrysvo$451$82,166119 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$84$68,90465 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$757$68,20857 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$259$44,61249 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$178$30,99430 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$336$23,57031 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$242$9,91613 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$25$4,25374 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 85th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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