RxDoctor Payments Data

Siamak Etehad, MD

Internal Medicine · Northridge, CANPI 1184728479

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,276in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 370 payments — averaging $27.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$3K
  • Amgen$711
  • AstraZeneca$691
  • Merz North America, Inc.$576
  • Lilly USA, LLC$548
  • Johnson & Johnson$532
  • plus $4K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,18921%
  • Food & beverage$8,03178%
  • Education$561%

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.

How this compares

$10,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$677,741
Medicare patients
551
Services billed
7,518

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
MounjaroTirzepatide379$437,220
OzempicSemaglutide322$359,355
EliquisApixaban550$300,739
LinzessLinaclotide325$218,763
JardianceEmpagliflozin228$207,516
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol247$190,562
ProliaDenosumab95$155,854
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl366$152,813
TrulicityDulaglutide99$85,609
Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate55$77,962
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter123$77,072
KerendiaFinerenone67$77,063
XareltoRivaroxaban169$71,211
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl54$64,949
GemtesaVibegron104$61,162

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$548$522,829478 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$121$370,703334 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Tradjenta, Trijardy Xr, Synjardy$288$331,622349 claims
PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt$206$328,549567 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$3,188$253,552352 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$691$190,562247 claims
AmgenProlia$711$155,85495 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Procrit$532$123,016186 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$485$77,072123 claims
BayerKerendia$113$77,06367 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$55$61,162104 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$116$55,20739 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 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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