RxDoctor Payments Data

Pius Kim, MD

Internal Medicine · Fullerton, CANPI 1003863317

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,481in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $25.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$385
  • Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$371
  • Johnson & Johnson$289
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$165
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$132
  • Abiomed$60
  • plus $78 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$201%
  • Food & beverage$1,46299%

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

$1,481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$94,504
Medicare patients
265
Services billed
752

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
EliquisApixaban38$24,092
BrilintaTicagrelor11$4,864
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil40$544
Pantoprazole Sodium46$450
Furosemide57$266
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav34$254
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron13$186
Potassium Chloride26$185
Amiodarone Hcl15$185
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate19$162
Atorvastatin Calcium27$144
Metoprolol Succinate19$132
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen21$124
Nitroglycerin19$102
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate16$98

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$385$24,09238 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$24$4,86411 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 80th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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