RxDoctor Payments Data

Solomon Forouzesh, MD

Rheumatology · Culver City, CANPI 1457548133

Payments from drug & device makers

$94,812in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,408 payments — averaging $67.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$30K
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$23K
  • AbbVie$21K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$2K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$2K
  • plus $14K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$15,28116%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$39,96242%
  • Travel & lodging$6,2267%
  • Food & beverage$32,94035%
  • Education$4040%

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

$94,812 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$548,382
Medicare patients
433
Services billed
16,682

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
RinvoqUpadacitinib99$675,062
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept88$636,960
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab55$397,518
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg128$303,484
BenlystaBelimumab59$280,609
OrenciaAbatacept48$272,072
SimponiGolimumab30$188,010
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol28$178,964
OzempicSemaglutide151$153,745
SaphneloAnifrolumab-Fnia21$109,047
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol136$107,454
ProliaDenosumab58$96,460
ForteoTeriparatide20$83,352
RybelsusSemaglutide72$72,675
ActemraTocilizumab14$62,037

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
AbbVieRinvoq, Ubrelvy, Linzess$20,696$715,317141 claims
AmgenEvenity (2 Syringes), Prolia, Otezla, Pennsaid$30,445$486,935211 claims
GSKBenlysta, Trelegy Ellipta$2,032$302,05091 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia$234$272,07248 claims
AstraZenecaSaphnelo, Farxiga, Nexium$2,194$227,045170 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$452$226,420223 claims
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$1,806$188,01030 claims
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$1,508$178,96428 claims
Lilly USA, LLCForteo, Mounjaro, Trulicity, Zyprexa$2,255$155,31986 claims
Genentech, Inc.Actemra$116$62,03714 claims
PfizerEliquis, Celebrex$1,239$29,22439 claims
MerckJanuvia$60$12,94923 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 85th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.

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