RxDoctor Payments Data

Priti Gagneja, MD

Internal Medicine · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1275666182

Payments from drug & device makers

$637in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $19.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$177
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$86
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$59
  • Johnson & Johnson$57
  • Smith+Nephew$42
  • Pfizer$36
  • plus $180 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$637100%

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

$637 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
$80,648
Medicare patients
146
Services billed
814

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
GemtesaVibegron37$29,600
OzempicSemaglutide20$25,660
EliquisApixaban30$23,067
Estradiol51$4,452
Celecoxib45$2,438
Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol15$2,097
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium23$2,028
Vivelle-DotEstradiol13$1,871
Levothyroxine Sodium127$1,722
Temazepam21$1,699
Atorvastatin Calcium117$1,078
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl19$1,003
Propranolol Hcl ErPropranolol Hcl18$900
Gabapentin53$870
ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized16$740

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
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$23$29,60037 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$21$25,66020 claims
PfizerEliquis$36$23,06730 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$25$2,02823 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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