RxDoctor Payments Data

Akshjot Puri, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1770981490

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,175in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 114 payments — averaging $54.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$2K
  • Pfizer$2K
  • AstraZeneca$460
  • Amgen$444
  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$254
  • Sanofi$154
  • plus $1K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,00649%
  • Food & beverage$3,07750%
  • Education$921%

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

$6,175 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,933
Medicare patients
255
Services billed
676

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
CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate11$265,448
KisqaliRibociclib Succinate12$177,862
EliquisApixaban33$25,776
XareltoRivaroxaban24$21,698
Letrozole118$2,285
Anastrozole38$888
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen28$700
Mirtazapine26$627
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate20$474
Tamoxifen Citrate37$376
Pantoprazole Sodium33$356
Duloxetine Hcl21$352
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron31$268
Dexamethasone13$213
Hydroxyurea19$189

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
Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx$32$265,44811 claims
NovartisKisqali$2,084$177,86212 claims
PfizerEliquis$1,540$25,77633 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$15$21,69824 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 45th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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