RxDoctor Payments Data

Susan Biegel, MD

Internal Medicine · Upland, CANPI 1710956412

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 408 payments — averaging $21.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$969
  • Novo Nordisk$904
  • Sanofi$437
  • Bayer$381
  • plus $3K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,20014%
  • Travel & lodging$501%
  • Food & beverage$7,34185%
  • Education$120%
  • Gifts$180%

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

$8,622 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
$1,333,298
Medicare patients
323
Services billed
7,043

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
OzempicSemaglutide452$462,779
JardianceEmpagliflozin163$139,360
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate123$124,395
EliquisApixaban133$106,252
Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate12$75,734
XareltoRivaroxaban63$65,124
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol72$60,596
Diclofenac Sodium89$58,952
TrulicityDulaglutide54$56,257
KerendiaFinerenone59$53,121
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter49$41,007
MounjaroTirzepatide35$39,480
XifaxanRifaximin11$37,868
RybelsusSemaglutide18$33,271
LinzessLinaclotide43$27,970

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 NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$904$496,050470 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$56$149,761178 claims
MerckJanuvia, Steglatro$141$130,141134 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$307$114,228159 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$357$95,73789 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$294$65,12463 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$159$60,59672 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$177$56,82680 claims
BayerKerendia$381$53,12159 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Ubrelvy$1,103$44,78054 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$272$37,86811 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$155$25,36428 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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