RxDoctor Payments Data

Steven Gustaveson, MD

Internal Medicine · Madera, CANPI 1598777559

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,605in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 181 payments — averaging $25.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bayer$1K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Gilead$568
  • EMD Serono, Inc.$515
  • Novo Nordisk$343
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$271
  • plus $821 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,605100%

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

$4,605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$124,608
Medicare patients
165
Services billed
2,192

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
RybelsusSemaglutide26$45,226
EliquisApixaban29$39,714
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$19,996
MounjaroTirzepatide11$18,673
XareltoRivaroxaban12$17,698
TradjentaLinagliptin12$17,615
OzempicSemaglutide18$14,575
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin11$13,373
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl13$7,209
Misoprostol20$4,968
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium32$2,748
Potassium Chloride30$1,968
Gabapentin61$1,773
Esomeprazole Magnesium17$1,462
Nebivolol Hcl14$1,257

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 NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$343$59,80144 claims
PfizerEliquis$79$39,71429 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta, Synjardy Xr$53$24,82425 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,029$19,99616 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$53$18,67311 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$115$17,69812 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$15$2,74832 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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