RxDoctor Payments Data

Adriana Gonzalez, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Houston, TXNPI 1003250796

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,296in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 760 payments — averaging $21.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2K
  • IBSA Pharma Inc.$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Dexcom, Inc.$1K
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$886
  • plus $8K from 44 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,0006%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5003%
  • Travel & lodging$1,1457%
  • Food & beverage$13,64084%
  • Education$110%

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

$16,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$434,892
Medicare patients
573
Services billed
22,566

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
OzempicSemaglutide193$252,949
MounjaroTirzepatide69$114,776
TrulicityDulaglutide47$75,060
TymlosAbaloparatide23$61,224
JardianceEmpagliflozin52$47,838
Fiasp FlextouchInsulin Aspart (Niacinamide)32$34,170
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide26$30,559
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec42$22,003
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$19,653
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate26$17,999
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/711$15,533
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl18$15,078
TradjentaLinagliptin19$12,959
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium116$10,909
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog59$10,711

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$1,241$252,949193 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity, Humalog$474$192,259127 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Tradjenta$323$75,87589 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$532$61,22423 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33, Lantus$886$33,43243 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$328$19,65315 claims
MerckJanuvia$148$17,99926 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$238$10,909116 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$217$1,883135 claims
PfizerLevoxyl$94$1,12537 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 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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