RxDoctor Payments Data

Ythanh Nguyen, MD

Hospitalist · Upland, CANPI 1255391181

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,400in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $18.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$262
  • Novartis$248
  • Pfizer$159
  • Merck$138
  • AstraZeneca$119
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$78
  • plus $396 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,400100%

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

$1,400 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,469 hospitalist providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$87,755
Medicare patients
156
Services billed
685

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
EliquisApixaban64$67,124
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol54$53,960
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan37$45,118
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$20,268
TrulicityDulaglutide19$18,834
Vancomycin Hcl21$12,883
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter19$11,761
XareltoRivaroxaban11$8,033
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium22$8,025
Colchicine24$2,396
Ampicillin-SulbactamAmpicillin Sod/Sulbactam Sod15$1,479
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$1,100
Midodrine Hcl21$1,043
Furosemide154$891
Atorvastatin Calcium68$857

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$159$67,12464 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$119$53,96054 claims
NovartisEntresto$248$45,11837 claims
MerckJanuvia$138$20,26818 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$262$8,03311 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 90th percentile of 2,469 hospitalist providers in California.

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