RxDoctor Payments Data

Wufaa Alrashid, MD

Internal Medicine · Pasadena, CANPI 1053516963

Payments from drug & device makers

$735in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $20.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$327
  • Novo Nordisk$95
  • AbbVie$77
  • Medtronic$55
  • Lilly USA, LLC$45
  • Pfizer$42
  • plus $94 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$735100%

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

$735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$15,788
Medicare patients
65
Services billed
170

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
OzempicSemaglutide24$28,119
EliquisApixaban37$23,973
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$15,254
RestasisCyclosporine12$6,688
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase11$4,946
Ezetimibe15$2,602
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium11$1,528
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir17$1,429
Losartan Potassium78$1,268
Estradiol18$1,229
Olmesartan Medoxomil34$1,051
Atorvastatin Calcium161$1,030
Rosuvastatin Calcium48$928
Levothyroxine Sodium122$924
Celecoxib25$629

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$95$28,11924 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$42$25,40354 claims
AbbVieRestasis, Creon, Synthroid$77$13,16234 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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