RxDoctor Payments Data

Anna Buteau, MD

Internal Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1780114215

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,256in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 218 payments — averaging $19.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • GSK$968
  • Lilly USA, LLC$525
  • Abbott$441
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$195
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$147
  • plus $886 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,256100%

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

$4,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$154,517
Medicare patients
318
Services billed
5,546

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
EliquisApixaban41$36,168
MounjaroTirzepatide34$35,912
OzempicSemaglutide31$34,855
GemtesaVibegron44$30,821
MyrbetriqMirabegron30$20,738
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$20,172
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$16,526
XyostedTestosterone Enanthate12$6,973
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium70$5,398
Atorvastatin Calcium558$5,112
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl151$4,408
Levothyroxine Sodium281$3,723
Estradiol43$3,283
Rosuvastatin Calcium217$2,837
Gabapentin93$1,996

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
PfizerEliquis$58$36,16841 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$525$35,91234 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,094$34,85531 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$119$20,73830 claims
MerckJanuvia$58$20,17217 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$195$16,52619 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$75$5,39870 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 85th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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