RxDoctor Payments Data

Shahnaz Otanian

Physician Assistant · Salinas, CANPI 1235211459

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,145in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $19.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$549
  • Novo Nordisk$168
  • Lilly USA, LLC$62
  • Pfizer$60
  • Amgen$58
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$48
  • plus $200 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,145100%

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

$1,145 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$36,736
Medicare patients
176
Services billed
582

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
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate41$32,116
TrulicityDulaglutide23$27,466
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$6,223
Nebivolol Hcl13$1,356
Atorvastatin Calcium102$1,307
Valsartan59$1,132
Gabapentin46$1,012
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate28$897
Escitalopram Oxalate47$719
Levothyroxine Sodium65$618
Olmesartan Medoxomil15$596
Diclofenac Sodium13$567
Metformin Hcl60$539
Ciclopirox11$531
Omeprazole33$511

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$28$32,11641 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$62$27,46623 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 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.

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