RxDoctor Payments Data

Priscilla Hsue, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Los Angeles, CANPI 1114969680

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.6%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 48.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $73,417 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $1,481 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$126,018in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $926.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$62K
  • Merck$57K
  • Genentech, Inc.$6K
  • Shionogi Inc$1K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$96
  • Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.$43
  • plus $90 from 3 others
$2,220,625in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $130,625 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novartis$1.8M
  • Abbott$462K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$57,43546%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$24,00019%
  • Travel & lodging$41,82733%
  • Food & beverage$1,7431%
  • Education$1,0141%

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
Gilead68$61,585
Merck57$56,713
Genentech, Inc.3$6,141
Shionogi Inc1$1,350
Edwards Lifesciences2$96
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.2$43
Abiomed1$35
Boehringer Ingelheim1$30
Regeneron1$26

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

$126,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$13,003
Medicare patients
103
Services billed
156

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
OpsumitMacitentan14$167,169
Ambrisentan12$52,321
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan23$19,134
EliquisApixaban20$18,041
Metoprolol Succinate33$303
Atorvastatin Calcium26$95
Spironolactone26$79
Furosemide14$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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