RxDoctor Payments Data

Ramy Awad, MD

Surgery · Palm Springs, CANPI 1326275363

Payments from drug & device makers

$102,128in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 133 payments — averaging $767.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$100K
  • Novo Nordisk$677
  • Medtronic$142
  • Johnson & Johnson$128
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$127
  • Covidien LP$126
  • plus $447 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$16,50016%
  • Travel & lodging$1,1881%
  • Food & beverage$5,1515%
  • Education$79,00077%
  • Gifts$2890%

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

$102,128 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$130,589
Medicare patients
193
Services billed
617

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
LinzessLinaclotide42$34,598
MounjaroTirzepatide20$22,890
OzempicSemaglutide11$12,867
Ursodiol54$2,881
Omeprazole167$2,462
Sucralfate30$684
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron46$648
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen60$496
Gabapentin19$118
Alprazolam11$105
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav11$73

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$48$22,89020 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$677$12,86711 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 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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