RxDoctor Payments Data

Nelly Awkar Lazo, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Downey, CANPI 1326351537

Payments from drug & device makers

$18,779in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 853 payments — averaging $22.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$1K
  • Incyte Corporation$990
  • AstraZeneca$937
  • Pfizer$901
  • Merck$783
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$702
  • plus $12K from 54 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$18,68399%
  • Education$961%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novartis68$1,443
Incyte Corporation47$990
AstraZeneca(2 entities)43$937
Pfizer46$901
Merck36$783
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.42$702
Bristol Myers Squibb31$626
GSK27$618
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)27$613
Amgen23$554
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.22$537
Genentech USA, Inc.24$524
Exelixis Inc.16$477
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company17$456
Seagen Inc.21$439
Sanofi20$425
Gilead(2 entities)17$401
AbbVie16$369
Eisai Inc.16$360
Bayer14$324
Array Biopharma Inc18$316
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.13$307
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.13$298
Lilly USA, LLC14$279
Astellas Pharma US Inc12$271
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.14$266
Taiho Oncology, Inc.11$265
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.10$252
Foundation Medicine, Inc.7$208
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.10$203
EMD Serono, Inc.8$169
Sobi, Inc8$167
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation5$156
Boehringer Ingelheim7$153
Blueprint Medicines Corporation6$135
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.4$127
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc6$124
Octapharma USA, Inc.3$120
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$118
CTI Biopharma Corp.4$111
EUSA Pharma (US) LLC6$109
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.4$106
Myovant Sciences Inc.5$105
Beigene USA, Inc.5$101
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$98
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.4$90
Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC3$87
Morphosys, US Inc.4$85
Epizyme, Inc.4$77
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.3$73
Verastem, Inc.3$72
GE HealthCare2$66
Emmaus Medical, Inc.3$62
Macrogenics, Inc.3$56
Sirtex Medical Inc3$56
Dova Pharmaceuticals4$55
Immunogen, Inc.2$54
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.2$51
Novocure Inc.2$50
Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.2$48

How this compares

$18,779 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,363 hematology & oncology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$131,990
Medicare patients
72
Services billed
11,312

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
XareltoRivaroxaban21$12,346
EliquisApixaban17$9,350
Letrozole51$722
Hydroxyurea18$264
Alendronate Sodium25$141
Prednisone20$51
Folic Acid11$49

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$613$12,34621 claims
PfizerEliquis$901$9,35017 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 60th percentile of 1,363 hematology & oncology providers in California.

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