RxDoctor Payments Data

Nushin Sherkat, MD

Family Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1992988505

Payments from drug & device makers

$622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $25.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$174
  • Johnson & Johnson$98
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$97
  • Novo Nordisk$83
  • GSK$33
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$32
  • plus $106 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$622100%

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

$622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$100,921
Medicare patients
209
Services billed
954

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
GalafoldMigalastat Hcl11$341,953
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$29,918
EliquisApixaban22$28,066
OzempicSemaglutide22$26,261
LinzessLinaclotide25$25,103
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$7,213
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole18$6,842
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl16$5,945
VytorinEzetimibe/Simvastatin12$4,213
Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate13$3,245
Cyclosporine11$3,122
Famotidine104$2,355
Rosuvastatin Calcium94$2,187
Atorvastatin Calcium232$1,962
Levothyroxine Sodium141$1,942

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
PfizerEliquis$174$28,06622 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$83$26,26122 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$32$7,21311 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 65th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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