RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Nguyen, MD

Internal Medicine · Colton, CANPI 1144256900

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,374in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 167 payments — averaging $20.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$2K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$446
  • Novo Nordisk$425
  • AstraZeneca$267
  • AbbVie$213
  • Merck$169
  • plus $252 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,368100%
  • Education$60%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Amarin Pharma, Inc.87$1,602
Boehringer Ingelheim23$446
Novo Nordisk22$425
AstraZeneca13$267
AbbVie(2 entities)7$213
Merck5$169
GSK4$160
Lilly USA, LLC4$59
Pfizer1$21
Genentech USA, Inc.1$13

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

$3,374 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,643
Medicare patients
149
Services billed
502

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin789$608,332
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate292$208,342
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol238$186,257
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase155$180,836
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase77$122,866
RybelsusSemaglutide46$52,349
EliquisApixaban36$39,137
TradjentaLinagliptin60$34,427
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol47$33,159
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide19$26,453
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate122$25,283
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl62$20,597
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol37$18,097
XiidraLifitegrast25$17,779
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter28$17,174

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$446$642,759849 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Brilinta, Symbicort$267$230,983318 claims
MerckJanuvia$169$208,342292 claims
AbbVieCreon, Restasis$213$190,834172 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus$425$52,34946 claims
PfizerEliquis$21$39,13736 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$160$33,53366 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 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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