RxDoctor Payments Data

Radhika Tulpule, MD

Internal Medicine · Covina, CANPI 1801829437

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,126in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $35.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$328
  • Stryker$172
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$75
  • Mannkind Corporation$69
  • Lilly USA, LLC$59
  • Exact Sciences$54
  • plus $368 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,126100%

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

$1,126 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$191,647
Medicare patients
319
Services billed
1,668

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
EliquisApixaban116$68,967
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate48$47,182
JardianceEmpagliflozin57$35,438
OzempicSemaglutide25$33,330
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol29$26,451
Aripiprazole27$4,813
Levothyroxine Sodium368$4,562
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir22$4,396
Atorvastatin Calcium361$3,288
Gabapentin222$3,181
Pantoprazole Sodium153$2,948
Metoprolol Succinate139$2,511
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl29$2,387
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate49$2,353
Rosuvastatin Calcium55$1,854

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, Paxlovid$43$73,363138 claims
MerckJanuvia$31$47,18248 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$19$35,43857 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$328$33,33025 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$29$1,72421 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 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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