RxDoctor Payments Data

Nicolas Makhoul, MD

Family Medicine · Pleasant Hill, CANPI 1639109515

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,091in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $35.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$497
  • Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$400
  • Lilly USA, LLC$374
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$259
  • Exact Sciences$216
  • AbbVie$172
  • plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$45015%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$42214%
  • Food & beverage$2,21972%

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

$3,091 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
$172,131
Medicare patients
196
Services billed
1,631

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin52$54,938
EliquisApixaban31$31,729
OzempicSemaglutide12$11,238
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$9,863
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol15$4,839
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir16$4,288
Atorvastatin Calcium334$3,280
Levothyroxine Sodium165$2,216
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium45$2,141
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate44$1,843
Losartan Potassium92$1,222
Gabapentin63$1,221
Simvastatin89$1,127
Rosuvastatin Calcium82$1,125
Omeprazole54$1,069

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$259$54,93852 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$142$36,01747 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$69$11,23812 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$497$9,86313 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$172$2,14145 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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