RxDoctor Payments Data

Young-Jik Lee, MD

Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1447271036

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,049in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 657 payments — averaging $22.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Amgen$2K
  • GSK$1K
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$1K
  • Pfizer$841
  • plus $7K from 46 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$14,998100%
  • Education$520%

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

$15,049 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,743,623
Medicare patients
876
Services billed
20,875

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/Amylase591$504,733
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate360$236,996
TradjentaLinagliptin305$193,627
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase176$182,805
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl550$155,789
LinzessLinaclotide232$143,545
TrulicityDulaglutide132$138,452
JardianceEmpagliflozin158$124,606
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol160$114,553
Lidocaine916$111,062
EliquisApixaban162$110,515
MyrbetriqMirabegron186$97,970
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl129$90,325
XareltoRivaroxaban118$69,930
RestasisCyclosporine86$49,986

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, Restasis, Namzaric$1,803$726,035953 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta, Jardiance, Jentadueto, Spiriva Respimat$657$368,504544 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$230$344,346522 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$103$182,805176 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$465$138,452132 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$1,845$127,678179 claims
PfizerEliquis$841$110,515162 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$128$97,970186 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Shingrix$1,460$71,765177 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$182$69,930118 claims
NovartisEntresto, Exelon$138$37,61047 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$159$28,59711 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 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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