RxDoctor Payments Data

Anshu Bhatla, MD

Internal Medicine · Harlingen, TXNPI 1558371005

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,367in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $18.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$628
  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$480
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$468
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$440
  • AstraZeneca$434
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$246
  • plus $672 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,367100%

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

$3,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$3,028
Medicare patients
51
Services billed
304

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol85$84,061
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl79$79,936
OzempicSemaglutide55$78,354
EliquisApixaban31$30,161
RybelsusSemaglutide13$18,264
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$17,688
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$15,510
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$14,886
TradjentaLinagliptin14$12,675
Esomeprazole Magnesium43$3,792
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog26$3,510
Solifenacin Succinate70$3,150
Diclofenac Sodium89$2,951
Gabapentin132$2,492
Atorvastatin Calcium328$2,446

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$37$96,61868 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$434$84,06185 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$21$28,18426 claims
NovartisEntresto$21$17,68814 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 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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