RxDoctor Payments Data

Allison Blazek, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1730289695

Payments from drug & device makers

$540in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $19.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$257
  • IBSA Pharma Inc.$87
  • Novo Nordisk$44
  • Acclarent, Inc$33
  • Shire North American Group Inc$28
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$25
  • plus $67 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$52597%
  • Education$153%

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

$540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,860
Medicare patients
29
Services billed
34

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
MounjaroTirzepatide28$34,700
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol13$10,376
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium21$1,215
Liothyronine Sodium27$1,038
Gabapentin31$864
Rosuvastatin Calcium60$809
Azelastine Hcl12$703
Losartan Potassium55$687
Levothyroxine Sodium42$538
Chlorthalidone21$444
Metoprolol Succinate24$354
Propranolol Hcl19$348
Omeprazole20$338
Trazodone Hcl46$338
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl26$318

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$17$34,70028 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$257$1,21521 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 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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