RxDoctor Payments Data

Vachik Shahnazarian, MD

General Practice · Glendale, CANPI 1447396809

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,969in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 606 payments — averaging $23.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$965
  • Novo Nordisk$859
  • plus $7K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13,76799%
  • Education$2021%

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

$13,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 12,963 general practice providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$326,916
Medicare patients
635
Services billed
4,990

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
RybelsusSemaglutide253$294,676
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl869$278,377
JardianceEmpagliflozin391$267,745
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase180$251,962
LinzessLinaclotide414$241,311
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol292$211,113
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate227$150,201
Icosapent Ethyl821$138,462
Diclofenac Sodium501$95,455
TradjentaLinagliptin173$92,175
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter135$89,765
ProliaDenosumab53$87,313
EliquisApixaban134$81,222
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe174$78,443
OzempicSemaglutide76$76,437

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
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$1,166$493,273594 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Spiriva Respimat$965$372,103588 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$859$371,113329 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,661$228,657321 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$212$182,099287 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$852$114,785191 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet, Nexletol$1,086$92,617206 claims
AmgenProlia$1,050$87,31353 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$640$87,27086 claims
PfizerEliquis$448$81,222134 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$241$74,450130 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$58$69,45741 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 95th percentile of 12,963 general practice providers in California.

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