RxDoctor Payments Data

Pejman Shamekh, MD

Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1982620134

Payments from drug & device makers

$618in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $26.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Cook Medical LLC$123
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$115
  • AstraZeneca$51
  • Novartis$43
  • Organogenesis Inc.$38
  • Integra Lifesciences Corporation$34
  • plus $214 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$618100%

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

$618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$829,533
Medicare patients
633
Services billed
9,401

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
EliquisApixaban289$102,855
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate84$46,430
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.23$30,987
Diclofenac Sodium69$23,917
Fondaparinux Sodium13$19,706
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$19,473
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol36$19,416
OzempicSemaglutide12$19,339
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan38$13,183
Lubiprostone42$12,853
Chlorzoxazone13$12,289
Saxagliptin Hcl31$11,399
Mesalamine12$10,989
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole30$10,719
Sucralfate38$9,993

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$25$102,855289 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$25$23,82354 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$51$19,41636 claims
NovartisEntresto$43$13,18338 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$26$7,77618 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 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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