RxDoctor Payments Data

Shahla Sadighian, MD

Internal Medicine · Placentia, CANPI 1265410468

Payments from drug & device makers

$768in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $21.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$315
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$109
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$80
  • AbbVie$59
  • Abbott$53
  • Pfizer$37
  • plus $116 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$768100%

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

$768 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
$13,247
Medicare patients
84
Services billed
184

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
EliquisApixaban28$36,992
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$13,341
Atorvastatin Calcium334$3,757
Levothyroxine Sodium189$3,111
Rosuvastatin Calcium93$2,390
Losartan Potassium183$2,197
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium21$2,013
Metoprolol Succinate94$1,865
Icosapent Ethyl11$1,580
Amlodipine Besylate169$1,331
Metformin Hcl133$1,313
Gabapentin44$1,270
Escitalopram Oxalate50$1,130
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide53$1,105
Memantine Hcl19$973

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
PfizerEliquis$37$36,99228 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$109$13,34114 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$59$2,01321 claims
Lilly USA, LLCHumulin 70-30$24$50812 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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