RxDoctor Payments Data

Alexander Tessnow, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Dallas, TXNPI 1740255801

Payments from drug & device makers

$45,995in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $1483.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$37K
  • Amgen$4K
  • Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$3K
  • IBSA Pharma Inc.$2K
  • Bayer$918

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$38,98185%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,3087%
  • Travel & lodging$2,8506%
  • Food & beverage$7882%
  • Education$690%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie15$36,694
Amgen(2 entities)8$3,594
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.2$2,600
IBSA Pharma Inc.5$2,189
Bayer1$918

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

$45,995 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$56,429
Medicare patients
286
Services billed
474

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
OzempicSemaglutide50$59,236
JardianceEmpagliflozin31$42,825
TrulicityDulaglutide12$18,146
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium182$16,205
TirosintLevothyroxine Sodium34$6,838
Levothyroxine Sodium603$6,490
Testosterone11$1,833
Liothyronine Sodium42$1,339
Hydrocortisone17$984
Calcitriol21$888
Methimazole110$738
Atorvastatin Calcium25$546
Rosuvastatin Calcium25$454
Testosterone Cypionate16$361
Alendronate Sodium28$227

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
AbbVieSynthroid$36,694$16,205182 claims
IBSA Pharma Inc.Tirosint$2,189$6,83834 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 80th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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