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Simon Ritchken, MD

Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1255399341

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,532in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 562 payments — averaging $20.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$837
  • Amgen$770
  • Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$722
  • Lilly USA, LLC$621
  • GSK$566
  • plus $7K from 54 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1141%
  • Food & beverage$11,18597%
  • Education$1081%
  • Gifts$1251%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie(2 entities)56$1,119
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)44$837
Amgen(2 entities)35$770
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.37$722
Lilly USA, LLC31$621
GSK26$566
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC21$530
Novo Nordisk27$496
Mannkind Corporation24$342
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC18$305
Boehringer Ingelheim16$300
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.14$246
BETA Bionics, Inc.13$240
AstraZeneca(2 entities)11$236
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.10$214
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.7$214
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.4$206
Bayer7$173
Insulet Corporation5$164
Radius Health, Inc.7$163
Novartis8$153
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.3$140
Romark Laboratories, LC8$136
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals5$135
Abbott6$135
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.8$126
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.6$122
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.6$121
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.5$120
Pfizer6$119
Celltrion USA Inc.6$116
Eisai Inc.5$106
Alfasigma USA, Inc.5$97
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$94
Cequr Corporation1$94
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.5$93
Merck5$89
Medtronic4$77
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc4$71
Exact Sciences2$61
Amarin Pharma, Inc.3$59
Shionogi Inc3$58
Antares Pharma, Inc.3$56
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.3$56
Zealand Pharma US, Inc.3$50
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.2$47
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc3$43
CMP Pharma, Inc.2$35
Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc.2$33
Shire North American Group Inc2$33
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.2$32
Redhill Biopharma Inc.2$30
Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc1$28
IBSA Pharma Inc.1$28
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.1$27
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.2$25
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC1$25
Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc.1$24
Sequel Med Tech, LLC1$23
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$23

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

$11,532 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
$136,019
Medicare patients
379
Services billed
1,230

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
LinzessLinaclotide18$16,416
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates83$5,034
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac18$3,070
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)12$1,086
Omeprazole136$982
Pantoprazole Sodium94$828
Rosuvastatin Calcium36$774
Lactulose14$557
Losartan Potassium49$490
Atorvastatin Calcium37$408
Famotidine37$291
Levothyroxine Sodium32$276
Hydrocortisone33$268
Dicyclomine Hcl32$265
Tamsulosin Hcl23$234

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
AbbVieLinzess$1,119$16,41618 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$126$3,07018 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Acyclovir$32$10515 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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