RxDoctor Payments Data

Nairi Berner, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Irvine, CANPI 1104093277

Payments from drug & device makers

$495in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $23.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$125
  • AbbVie$82
  • Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$64
  • Insulet Corporation$40
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$35
  • GSK$24
  • plus $124 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$495100%

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

$495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 952 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,318
Medicare patients
329
Services billed
618

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
OzempicSemaglutide94$123,739
JardianceEmpagliflozin68$77,915
TrulicityDulaglutide49$66,027
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate38$56,596
MounjaroTirzepatide48$50,684
Gvoke Hypopen 2-PackGlucagon35$37,515
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec12$9,693
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium72$7,187
Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic40$6,069
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro20$5,726
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog39$4,655
Insulin Lispro Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro17$2,451
Levothyroxine Sodium146$2,016
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters14$1,989
Hydrocortisone30$1,655

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$16$123,73994 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$19$116,71197 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$82$7,18772 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 30th percentile of 952 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in California.

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