RxDoctor Payments Data

Alex Chen, MD

Family Medicine · Spring, TXNPI 1912946716

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,162in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $18.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$229
  • Amgen$191
  • AbbVie$100
  • AstraZeneca$85
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$77
  • Abbott$73
  • plus $407 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,13297%
  • Education$303%

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

$1,162 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,946
Medicare patients
125
Services billed
485

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
OzempicSemaglutide24$43,028
JardianceEmpagliflozin26$40,589
RybelsusSemaglutide16$23,452
TrulicityDulaglutide11$20,702
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter11$11,514
Atorvastatin Calcium163$1,505
Levothyroxine Sodium73$1,081
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl67$769
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate24$706
Losartan Potassium79$699
Rosuvastatin Calcium59$687
Fluticasone Propionate36$637
Metoprolol Succinate33$561
Tamsulosin Hcl29$545
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide13$462

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, Rybelsus$229$66,48040 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$45$20,70211 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$34$11,51411 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 60th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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