RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Zimmerman, MD

Infectious Disease · Sacramento, CANPI 1619294352

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,073in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $26.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$1K
  • Merck$304
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$276
  • Shionogi Inc$138
  • AbbVie$88
  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$80
  • plus $28 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,02197%
  • Education$523%

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
Gilead41$1,159
Merck17$304
Viiv Healthcare Company12$276
Shionogi Inc3$138
AbbVie(2 entities)4$88
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC1$80
Johnson & Johnson1$28

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

$2,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$129,547
Medicare patients
378
Services billed
1,235

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala36$164,698
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen21$88,270
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi25$84,498
OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala20$69,884
IsentressRaltegravir Potassium17$33,364
Etravirine17$18,049
Vancomycin Hcl28$7,526
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium15$6,941
Daptomycin15$2,893
Rifampin28$1,813
Moxifloxacin Hcl16$1,677
Azithromycin31$1,543
Ethambutol Hcl21$1,516
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium42$1,135
Cefazolin Sodium21$981

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
GileadBiktarvy, Genvoya$1,159$252,96757 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTriumeq$276$84,49825 claims
MerckIsentress$304$33,36417 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 65th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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