RxDoctor Payments Data

Vardui Arutyunyan, MD

Family Medicine · Glendale, CANPI 1841235223

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,420in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 101 payments — averaging $33.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$778
  • AbbVie$626
  • Bayer$120
  • Vertiflex, Inc.$116
  • Merck$114
  • plus $465 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,28696%
  • Education$1163%
  • Gifts$181%

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

$3,420 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
$373,125
Medicare patients
795
Services billed
4,175

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase244$286,350
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate469$265,099
LinzessLinaclotide479$250,985
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl785$245,126
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl411$229,029
Metformin Er GastricMetformin Hcl156$187,525
JardianceEmpagliflozin269$170,395
Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate157$167,163
MyrbetriqMirabegron325$150,300
OzempicSemaglutide157$149,820
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab251$135,671
Diclofenac Sodium875$134,095
ProliaDenosumab80$130,944
EliquisApixaban184$115,321
Icosapent Ethyl657$105,332

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, Namzaric, Ubrelvy, Vraylar$626$640,509850 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$114$494,128880 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$778$178,271184 claims
AmgenProlia, Vimovo$1,201$147,81095 claims
PfizerEliquis$38$115,321184 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Nexium$40$99,448225 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$15$57,95858 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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