RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Newman, MD

Family Medicine · Tarzana, CANPI 1568596682

Payments from drug & device makers

$200in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $33.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • SPR Therapeutics, Inc$103
  • AbbVie$34
  • Boston Scientific$28
  • Pfizer$23
  • Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$200100%

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

$200 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$206,862
Medicare patients
410
Services billed
2,578

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
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir32$2,859
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate73$1,590
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium12$1,575
Cefdinir49$1,064
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide14$584
Cephalexin55$505
Azithromycin150$491
Fluticasone Propionate62$486
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst42$463
Ofloxacin26$457
Ketoconazole13$283
Pravastatin Sodium28$232
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide23$213
Diclofenac Sodium71$199
Prednisone71$159

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
PfizerPaxlovid$23$2,85932 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$34$1,57512 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 45th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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