RxDoctor Payments Data

Ranjit Karu, MD

Family Medicine · Pomona, CANPI 1386645760

Payments from drug & device makers

$20,035in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 653 payments — averaging $30.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • Amgen$2K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • GSK$2K
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • plus $9K from 42 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,2006%
  • Travel & lodging$480%
  • Food & beverage$18,56093%
  • Education$2281%

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

$20,035 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$183,169
Medicare patients
163
Services billed
2,116

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan248$169,263
EliquisApixaban261$159,585
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol179$145,004
MounjaroTirzepatide119$135,867
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate178$116,397
JardianceEmpagliflozin93$71,053
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter70$52,338
MyrbetriqMirabegron74$51,483
LinzessLinaclotide70$48,812
OzempicSemaglutide46$48,228
TrulicityDulaglutide36$43,646
TradjentaLinagliptin56$24,588
VraylarCariprazine Hcl12$17,262
XareltoRivaroxaban14$17,114
RybelsusSemaglutide18$17,092

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, Trulicity$942$179,513155 claims
NovartisEntresto$467$169,263248 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$568$168,272287 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$3,000$145,004179 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr, Belsomra$680$134,198205 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$263$95,641149 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Namzaric$2,028$73,737108 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$1,222$65,32164 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$1,520$58,18185 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$270$51,48374 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$765$17,11414 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$191$15,95734 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 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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