RxDoctor Payments Data

Sabah Ahmed, MD

Family Medicine · Newport Beach, CANPI 1114405974

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,255in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $27.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$248
  • Lilly USA, LLC$186
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$172
  • AstraZeneca$100
  • Novo Nordisk$82
  • Alkermes, Inc.$74
  • plus $391 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,24099%
  • Education$151%

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

$1,255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$40,395
Medicare patients
196
Services billed
372

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
OzempicSemaglutide26$29,743
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$22,634
TrulicityDulaglutide20$19,062
EliquisApixaban18$16,755
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate20$16,097
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$14,397
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog22$2,050
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate42$1,540
Rosuvastatin Calcium86$1,485
Atorvastatin Calcium149$1,144
Levothyroxine Sodium106$1,015
Gabapentin64$967
Pantoprazole Sodium69$868
Losartan Potassium109$812
Omeprazole41$525

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$82$29,74326 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$186$19,06220 claims
PfizerEliquis$33$16,75518 claims
MerckJanuvia$22$16,09720 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$100$14,39717 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 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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