RxDoctor Payments Data

Sadegh Salmassi, MD

Family Medicine · Delano, CANPI 1831361583

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,838in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 465 payments — averaging $25.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • AbbVie$992
  • Merck$985
  • Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$897
  • Novo Nordisk$690
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$648
  • plus $4K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$11,826100%
  • Education$120%

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

$11,838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$128,282
Medicare patients
236
Services billed
1,119

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
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase47$196,302
TradjentaLinagliptin382$183,217
JardianceEmpagliflozin302$179,375
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate257$160,711
LinzessLinaclotide535$140,218
EliquisApixaban265$86,862
OzempicSemaglutide77$83,369
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl176$79,403
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol129$78,029
KerendiaFinerenone62$46,289
TrulicityDulaglutide61$38,053
Icosapent Ethyl106$34,745
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan32$27,313
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter33$25,249
GemtesaVibegron38$21,736

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 IngelheimTradjenta, Jardiance, Combivent Respimat$648$368,232696 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$897$196,30247 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$985$175,658276 claims
AbbVieLinzess$992$140,218535 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Pulmicort Flexhaler$3,135$99,424176 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$690$95,36292 claims
PfizerEliquis$131$86,862265 claims
BayerKerendia$111$46,28962 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$177$45,02578 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$574$38,05361 claims
NovartisEntresto$75$27,31332 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$87$21,73638 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 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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