RxDoctor Payments Data

Roger Pitzen, MD

Family Medicine · Sebastopol, CANPI 1396742524

Payments from drug & device makers

$272in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $17.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$141
  • GSK$83
  • Lilly USA, LLC$17
  • Merck$17
  • Pfizer$15

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$272100%

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
Boehringer Ingelheim9$141
GSK4$83
Lilly USA, LLC1$17
Merck1$17
Pfizer1$15

How this compares

$272 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$150,336
Medicare patients
277
Services billed
2,030

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$27,639
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter27$22,067
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol41$17,773
BelsomraSuvorexant16$7,156
Atorvastatin Calcium216$2,392
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol15$2,385
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate70$2,242
Levothyroxine Sodium180$1,901
Benazepril Hcl128$1,677
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol19$1,615
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir38$1,429
Tamsulosin Hcl122$1,315
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium25$1,247
Gabapentin100$1,119
Celecoxib61$1,085

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$83$39,84068 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$141$27,63924 claims
MerckBelsomra$17$7,15616 claims
PfizerPaxlovid$15$1,42938 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 50th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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