RxDoctor Payments Data

Shavith Samson, MD

Family Medicine · Vista, CANPI 1578097374

Payments from drug & device makers

$451in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $25.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$292
  • Bayer$32
  • Lilly USA, LLC$30
  • Dexcom, Inc.$29
  • GSK$29
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$22
  • plus $17 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$20145%
  • Education$25055%

General payments by program year

23
24
25

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

$451 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,804
Medicare patients
250
Services billed
1,222

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
OzempicSemaglutide97$96,610
EliquisApixaban26$27,798
Olmesartan Medoxomil29$1,286
Rosuvastatin Calcium41$1,105
Atorvastatin Calcium132$998
Tamsulosin Hcl52$671
Duloxetine Hcl30$621
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate28$621
Losartan Potassium68$602
Sertraline Hcl63$591
Gabapentin48$585
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl16$546
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron12$525
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine13$523
Pravastatin Sodium36$520

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$292$96,61097 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 60th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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