RxDoctor Payments Data

Amilcar Morales Cardona, MD

Gastroenterology · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1306166483

Payments from drug & device makers

$235,765in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 303 payments — averaging $778.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$201K
  • Gilead$30K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$725
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$570
  • Johnson & Johnson$327
  • QOL Medical, LLC$298
  • plus $2K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,91098%
  • Education$1332%

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

$235,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$144,293
Medicare patients
274
Services billed
4,400

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
StelaraUstekinumab18$426,392
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase26$135,308
LinzessLinaclotide43$42,594
XifaxanRifaximin13$29,431
Mesalamine13$8,484
SuflavePeg 3350/Sod Sulf,chlr/Pot/Mag41$5,121
Omeprazole397$5,036
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates68$4,210
Cholestyramine LightCholestyramine36$3,204
Sucralfate69$2,510
Budesonide DrBudesonide18$2,284
Esomeprazole Magnesium72$1,705
Lubiprostone11$1,110
Ursodiol16$1,001
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)13$808

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
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$327$426,39218 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$201,066$177,90269 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$570$29,43113 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Suflave$216$5,12141 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 90th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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