RxDoctor Payments Data

April Gatson, MD

Family Medicine · Longview, TXNPI 1649275470

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,798in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 589 payments — averaging $20.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Bayer$1K
  • Pfizer$781
  • plus $4K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,20010%
  • Food & beverage$10,32988%
  • Education$2692%

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

$11,798 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$86,604
Medicare patients
169
Services billed
804

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
OzempicSemaglutide297$332,088
JardianceEmpagliflozin197$154,848
MounjaroTirzepatide116$144,652
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol92$84,012
LinzessLinaclotide90$69,225
EliquisApixaban69$51,575
MyrbetriqMirabegron71$49,859
TrulicityDulaglutide39$44,525
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,230$43,689
RybelsusSemaglutide15$38,241
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol47$37,043
Lurasidone Hcl28$31,213
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate31$28,475
XareltoRivaroxaban26$26,013
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate80$24,788

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$584$370,329312 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$652$189,177155 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort, Seroquel$2,117$161,045232 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$62$154,848197 claims
AbbVieLinzess$1,224$69,22590 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$781$56,37993 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$231$49,85971 claims
MerckJanuvia, Belsomra$68$34,28944 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$359$27,40133 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$104$26,01326 claims
BayerKerendia$1,040$16,80816 claims
NovartisEntresto$169$10,01015 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 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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