RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Valdez, MD

Family Medicine · Elk Grove, CANPI 1740433093

Payments from drug & device makers

$132in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $21.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$101
  • Johnson & Johnson$31

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$132100%

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

19
24

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
Merck4$101
Johnson & Johnson2$31

How this compares

$132 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$512,982
Medicare patients
230
Services billed
21,435

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
OcalivaObeticholic Acid13$113,771
OzempicSemaglutide77$72,225
JardianceEmpagliflozin56$48,494
EliquisApixaban44$37,505
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate28$36,338
MounjaroTirzepatide36$34,699
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter17$15,064
TradjentaLinagliptin18$13,210
TrulicityDulaglutide11$11,024
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab14$7,730
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide15$5,880
Rosuvastatin Calcium207$4,209
Atorvastatin Calcium400$3,319
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate119$2,988
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol12$2,857

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
MerckJanuvia$101$36,33828 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 35th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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