RxDoctor Payments Data

Nicolas Dela Pena, MD

Infectious Disease · Merced, CANPI 1043204605

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,220in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $30.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$265
  • AstraZeneca$167
  • GSK$145
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$109
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$109
  • Bayer$96
  • plus $329 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$96879%
  • Education$25221%

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

$1,220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$269,489
Medicare patients
582
Services billed
3,463

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala102$409,265
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf45$238,846
JardianceEmpagliflozin83$96,629
CopaxoneGlatiramer Acetate12$82,615
OzempicSemaglutide58$66,190
EliquisApixaban53$62,562
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine19$62,074
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter50$52,814
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol36$47,711
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog45$25,115
MyrbetriqMirabegron30$21,126
MounjaroTirzepatide19$19,027
XareltoRivaroxaban23$16,493
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$11,993
Lamivudine-ZidovudineLamivudine/Zidovudine35$11,729

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
GileadBiktarvy$31$409,265102 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$22$96,62983 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$145$66,04674 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato$87$62,07419 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$167$60,62163 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$265$21,12630 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$20$19,02719 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 856 infectious disease providers in California.

Other infectious disease in Merced

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