RxDoctor Payments Data

Vivian Nguyen, MD

Internal Medicine · Westminster, CANPI 1689869570

Payments from drug & device makers

$259in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $23.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$54
  • Kerecis Limited$34
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$25
  • Novo Nordisk$25
  • Dynavax Technologies Corporation$24
  • AbbVie$22
  • plus $76 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$259100%

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

$259 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$171,726
Medicare patients
349
Services billed
1,395

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
EliquisApixaban37$21,554
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$6,936
Sucralfate20$1,761
Atorvastatin Calcium72$504
FenofibrateFenofibrate Nanocrystallized15$348
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip21$313
Nifedipine ErNifedipine16$276
Losartan Potassium42$259
Pantoprazole Sodium35$226
Amlodipine Besylate38$216
Gabapentin24$208
Hydralazine Hcl12$205
Levothyroxine Sodium23$204
Tamsulosin Hcl26$196
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters14$171

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$15$21,55437 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 55th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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