RxDoctor Payments Data

Peter Ma, MD

Internal Medicine · Arcadia, CANPI 1902831019

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,643in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $32.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$380
  • AbbVie$324
  • Gilead$293
  • Medtronic$275
  • Bayer$205
  • AstraZeneca$187
  • plus $980 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,62199%
  • Education$221%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Amgen12$380
AbbVie10$324
Gilead4$293
Medtronic(2 entities)2$275
Bayer11$205
AstraZeneca9$187
Novo Nordisk3$167
Boehringer Ingelheim7$156
GSK6$144
Pfizer6$133
Corium, LLC1$125
Lilly USA, LLC4$93
Novartis2$50
Vivus LLC2$42
Merck1$27
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc1$23
Lundbeck LLC1$20

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

$2,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$403,257
Medicare patients
366
Services billed
4,403

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin236$191,909
ProliaDenosumab78$124,106
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate152$116,666
EliquisApixaban126$82,630
RybelsusSemaglutide53$70,351
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl164$59,569
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase52$51,016
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol53$42,670
Cyclosporine117$30,441
RestasisCyclosporine46$29,359
Icosapent Ethyl143$27,910
TradjentaLinagliptin38$21,748
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide15$21,447
TrulicityDulaglutide11$16,853
Rosuvastatin Calcium1,273$16,624

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$156$213,658274 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr$27$129,357172 claims
AmgenProlia$380$124,10678 claims
AbbVieCreon, Restasis, Linzess, Restasis Multidose, Namzaric$324$113,735153 claims
PfizerEliquis$133$82,630126 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus$167$70,35153 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$187$42,67053 claims
GileadVemlidy$293$21,44715 claims
GSKIncruse Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$144$20,59646 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$93$16,85311 claims
BayerKerendia$205$16,38922 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 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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