RxDoctor Payments Data

Patrick Chen, MD

Internal Medicine · Salinas, CANPI 1598749616

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,207in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 220 payments — averaging $60.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Avita Medical Americas, LLC$9K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$396
  • GSK$336
  • Abbott$279
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$272
  • plus $2K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,107100%

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.

How this compares

$13,207 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$603,520
Medicare patients
2,899
Services billed
7,160

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
MounjaroTirzepatide30$54,652
OzempicSemaglutide38$47,255
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$41,568
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate23$31,982
TrulicityDulaglutide20$27,440
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex13$21,929
EliquisApixaban12$14,799
LinzessLinaclotide12$13,256
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate18$6,433
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$5,745
Atorvastatin Calcium526$4,790
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium67$4,704
Serevent DiskusSalmeterol Xinafoate11$4,526
Levothyroxine Sodium295$4,166
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide13$3,905

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$241$82,09250 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$214$47,25538 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$39$41,56826 claims
MerckJanuvia$59$31,98223 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$1,322$17,96079 claims
PfizerEliquis$158$14,79912 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$336$9,65029 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$97$6,43318 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 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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