RxDoctor Payments Data

Albert Vu, DO

Pain Medicine · Cedar Hill, TXNPI 1962796375

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,241in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $138.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Potrero Medical, Inc.$7K
  • Boston Scientific$4K
  • Abbott$233
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$61
  • Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$41
  • Indivior Inc.$24
  • plus $41 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,19025%
  • Food & beverage$3,52675%

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

$11,241 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$155,103
Medicare patients
143
Services billed
1,842

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,204$44,277
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen212$9,498
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl17$9,072
ZtlidoLidocaine12$4,343
Gabapentin47$1,231
Pregabalin79$1,195
Tizanidine Hcl70$1,187
Fentanyl18$984
Tramadol Hcl91$795
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine25$706
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate33$692
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl51$679
Methocarbamol44$552
Baclofen22$551
Oxycodone Hcl32$542

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
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido$19$4,34312 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 75th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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