RxDoctor Payments Data

Sara Kanamori

Internal Medicine · Torrance, CANPI 1851755508

Payments from drug & device makers

$646in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $22.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$208
  • Lilly USA, LLC$137
  • Bayer$114
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$63
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$31
  • Amgen$27
  • plus $67 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$61495%
  • Education$325%

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

$646 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$63,510
Medicare patients
184
Services billed
522

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
OzempicSemaglutide22$26,735
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$17,717
MounjaroTirzepatide13$15,272
Losartan Potassium229$2,463
Rosuvastatin Calcium149$2,209
Atorvastatin Calcium271$2,155
Levothyroxine Sodium107$1,418
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium17$1,039
Amlodipine Besylate162$963
YuvafemEstradiol13$958
Metoprolol Succinate53$900
Omeprazole59$865
Alendronate Sodium130$825
Potassium Chloride16$558
Simvastatin66$555

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$208$26,73522 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$137$15,27213 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 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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