RxDoctor Payments Data

Samir Salameh, MD

Internal Medicine · Bakersfield, CANPI 1427402098

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,139in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $19.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$448
  • AbbVie$99
  • Alkermes, Inc.$93
  • Dynavax Technologies Corporation$88
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$87
  • Novo Nordisk$79
  • plus $245 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,04992%
  • Education$908%

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.

How this compares

$1,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$28,302
Medicare patients
175
Services billed
299

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin94$87,719
TradjentaLinagliptin37$30,574
EliquisApixaban38$27,868
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate34$23,807
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol21$18,431
TrulicityDulaglutide15$13,116
KerendiaFinerenone19$11,837
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog14$4,482
Gabapentin121$1,749
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog18$1,546
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate40$1,458
Atorvastatin Calcium247$1,208
Lidocaine13$1,189
Pantoprazole Sodium96$1,136
Tamsulosin Hcl72$1,124

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
MerckJanuvia$36$23,80734 claims
BayerKerendia$20$11,83719 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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