RxDoctor Payments Data

Thrissawan Sungkapalee, MD

Infectious Disease · Newport Beach, CANPI 1205145265

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,716in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 257 payments — averaging $18.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$1K
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$1K
  • Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$473
  • Insmed, Inc.$387
  • Johnson & Johnson$356
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$339
  • plus $509 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$992%
  • Food & beverage$4,52696%
  • Education$912%

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

$4,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$139,144
Medicare patients
204
Services billed
960

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
NuzyraOmadacycline Tosylate12$181,703
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine42$150,316
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine37$123,247
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala19$84,453
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam11$27,404
Vancomycin Hcl52$14,276
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium24$9,155
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium30$6,033
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl16$5,346
Methenamine Hippurate70$3,318
Ganciclovir Sodium13$3,217
Cefdinir50$2,086
Doxycycline Hyclate33$2,006
Ethambutol Hcl40$1,977
Nystatin26$1,095

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
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato, Juluca$1,206$273,56379 claims
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuzyra$339$181,70312 claims
GileadBiktarvy, Descovy$1,448$111,85730 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 70th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.

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