RxDoctor Payments Data

Nora Vasquez, MD

Family Medicine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1447296645

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,200in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $29.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$257
  • Novo Nordisk$235
  • Lilly USA, LLC$169
  • Cochlear Americas$160
  • Gilead$124
  • Pfizer$45
  • plus $209 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,200100%

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

$1,200 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$49,020
Medicare patients
121
Services billed
780

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
OzempicSemaglutide97$128,782
EliquisApixaban47$53,355
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol52$46,212
MounjaroTirzepatide26$24,905
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$21,007
TrulicityDulaglutide20$19,223
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$16,740
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab12$8,511
Atorvastatin Calcium369$4,749
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl14$3,484
YuvafemEstradiol32$3,302
Losartan Potassium175$2,767
Rosuvastatin Calcium150$2,681
Estradiol27$2,363
Olmesartan Medoxomil87$2,235

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$235$128,78297 claims
PfizerEliquis$45$53,35547 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$33$46,21252 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$169$44,12746 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 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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