RxDoctor Payments Data

Razi Hekmat, MD

Internal Medicine · National City, CANPI 1871501205

Payments from drug & device makers

$684in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $22.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$146
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$145
  • Pfizer$65
  • Merck$60
  • Edwards Lifesciences$54
  • Novartis$37
  • plus $176 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$684100%

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

$684 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
$338,742
Medicare patients
468
Services billed
2,758

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
OzempicSemaglutide16$18,140
EliquisApixaban22$17,852
TradjentaLinagliptin12$5,805
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen28$993
Atorvastatin Calcium93$990
Esomeprazole Magnesium12$873
Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic15$794
Omeprazole25$662
Pantoprazole Sodium57$602
Amlodipine Besylate113$595
Losartan Potassium90$585
Metoprolol Succinate34$549
Mirtazapine11$431
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl23$413
Levothyroxine Sodium42$393

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$23$18,14016 claims
PfizerEliquis$65$17,85222 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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