Patricia James, MD
Emergency Medicine · Palm Desert, CANPI 1689693517
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 439 payments — averaging $20.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- GSK$1K
- Amgen$958
- AstraZeneca$478
- Pfizer$462
- AbbVie$417
- plus $4K from 54 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,96299%
- Education$1071%
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
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.
- Repatha$483
- iTotal Identity PS$144
- Identity Imprint Knee Replacement System$144
- FREESTYLE LIBRE 3$141
- Esbriet$125
- INJECTAFER$125
- NUCALA$125
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$125
- Kerendia$121
- EVENITY$119
- Prolia$119
- ELIQUIS$116
- Arikayce$115
- STEGLATRO$106
How this compares
$9,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,006 emergency medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 62 | $70,311 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 27 | $33,481 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 23 | $25,590 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 16 | $21,812 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 18 | $18,886 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 13 | $14,390 |
| PremproEstrogen,con/M-Progest Acet | 14 | $4,755 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 419 | $4,182 |
| Gabapentin | 234 | $4,151 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 62 | $3,593 |
| Losartan Potassium | 364 | $3,457 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 350 | $3,349 |
| Memantine Hcl | 41 | $2,712 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 83 | $2,550 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 166 | $2,444 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis, Prempro | $462 | $75,06676 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $205 | $33,48127 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $212 | $25,59023 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $1,182 | $21,81216 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $30 | $18,88618 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $478 | $14,39013 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid, Armour Thyroid | $417 | $5,47878 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 95th percentile of 6,006 emergency medicine providers in California.
Other emergency medicine in Palm Desert
- Jeffrey OvercashChula Vista$31.8M
- Todd SimmonsEscondido$19.9M
- Michael WatersChula Vista$13.3M
- Barry HellerLong Beach$11.5M
- Gregory HachigianSacramento$10.9M
- Masaru OshitaSacramento$7.9M
- Brian BearieSan Bernardino$6.5M
- Julie KasarjianRiverside$4.9M
- Anna Ryabets-LienhardLos Angeles$3M
- Justin YanuckDowney$2.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.