RxDoctor Payments Data

Sherna Madan

San Carlos, CANPI 1134242753

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,853in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 124 payments — averaging $31.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • AstraZeneca$558
  • Mannkind Corporation$410
  • Novo Nordisk$361
  • Lilly USA, LLC$357
  • Amgen$336
  • plus $785 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,844100%
  • Education$100%

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.

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
AfrezzaInsulin Regular, Human40$139,518
JardianceEmpagliflozin55$77,197
OzempicSemaglutide41$68,985
TrulicityDulaglutide43$60,804
MounjaroTirzepatide32$41,260
XareltoRivaroxaban15$26,102
ProcritEpoetin Alfa14$26,060
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$25,916
EliquisApixaban15$16,968
MyrbetriqMirabegron14$14,375
Estradiol41$11,306
Praluent PenAlirocumab12$7,649
Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol68$6,896
ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized111$6,088
Tadalafil27$4,603

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
Mannkind CorporationAfrezza$410$139,51840 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$357$102,06475 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$20$77,19755 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$361$68,98541 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Procrit$37$52,16229 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$558$25,91618 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,046$1,85630 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. There are too few providers in Californiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Where these figures come from

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