RxDoctor Payments Data

Amer Al Karadsheh, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Houston, TXNPI 1396786729

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,750 of the $8,257 with a category attached, or 69.6%. It is spread thinly across 45 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.3%. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,089 and has fallen 67.8% since, to $673 in 2025.

$8,257in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 179 payments — averaging $46.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$2K
  • Eli Lilly$1K
  • Pfizer$658
  • Novo Nordisk$633
  • Corcept Therapeutics$557
  • Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc.$445
  • plus $3K from 39 others
$8,873,274in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3,188 payments — averaging $2783.34 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Eli Lilly$4.8M
  • Novo Nordisk AS$1.7M
  • CSL Behring$642K
  • AbbVie$458K
  • AstraZeneca$310K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$242K
  • plus $668K from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,50730%
  • Food & beverage$5,75070%

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

$8,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$127,034
Medicare patients
277
Services billed
23,855

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
TymlosAbaloparatide11$27,458
OzempicSemaglutide21$27,183
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium27$2,634
Levothyroxine Sodium53$540
Liothyronine Sodium14$385
Methimazole11$116
Atorvastatin Calcium13$83
Gabapentin13$69

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
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$15$27,45811 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$633$27,18321 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$67$2,63427 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$39$54053 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 65th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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