RxDoctor Payments Data

Susan Cheng, MD

Family Medicine · Thousand Oaks, CANPI 1427439124

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,442in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 182 payments — averaging $18.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$669
  • Amgen$596
  • Abbott$239
  • Pfizer$213
  • Novartis$150
  • Merck$134
  • plus $1K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,442100%

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.

How this compares

$3,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$333,633
Medicare patients
552
Services billed
4,565

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
OzempicSemaglutide39$41,155
EliquisApixaban32$21,327
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl16$13,283
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl24$2,927
Levothyroxine Sodium182$2,076
Estradiol22$2,064
Atorvastatin Calcium271$2,048
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium46$1,974
Bethanechol Chloride14$1,653
Rosuvastatin Calcium107$1,547
Valsartan34$1,343
Escitalopram Oxalate73$1,292
Sertraline Hcl116$1,193
Omeprazole84$1,099
Losartan Potassium134$1,066

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
PfizerEliquis$213$21,32732 claims
MerckJanumet$134$13,28316 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$669$1,97446 claims
Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl$20$1,193116 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 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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