RxDoctor Payments Data

Muni Barash, MD

Infectious Disease · Fremont, CANPI 1962428896

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,741in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $29.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$393
  • Merck$313
  • Johnson & Johnson$293
  • Gilead$173
  • Janssen Products, LP$159
  • AbbVie$111
  • plus $300 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,22170%
  • Education$52030%

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

$1,741 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$93,637
Medicare patients
276
Services billed
900

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
EliquisApixaban22$34,314
OzempicSemaglutide14$26,160
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.16$23,640
MounjaroTirzepatide23$23,193
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$7,767
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium28$3,242
Levothyroxine Sodium122$1,476
Atorvastatin Calcium152$1,419
Rosuvastatin Calcium49$1,235
Metformin Hcl118$1,200
Losartan Potassium131$1,164
Gabapentin12$673
Allopurinol42$511
Lisinopril56$495
Simvastatin39$491

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
Smith+NephewSantyl$14$23,64016 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$111$3,24228 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 856 infectious disease providers in California.

Other infectious disease in Fremont

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