RxDoctor Payments Data

Ashkan Ghorbani, MD

Dermatology · Pasadena, TXNPI 1851392039

Payments from drug & device makers

$27,019in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,460 payments — averaging $18.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$4K
  • Johnson & Johnson$3K
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$2K
  • Novartis$2K
  • Incyte Corporation$2K
  • Amgen$2K
  • plus $13K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$26,66799%
  • Education$3521%

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.

How this compares

$27,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,098 dermatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$863,443
Medicare patients
1,267
Services billed
13,104

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
OtezlaApremilast18$87,429
Metronidazole663$40,607
Ivermectin29$9,456
CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine418$8,092
Fluorouracil71$4,069
Hydrocortisone466$4,039
Clobetasol Propionate113$3,761
Fluocinonide93$2,935
Clindamycin Phosphate68$2,146
Doxycycline Monohydrate69$1,717
Triamcinolone Acetonide229$1,571
Azelaic Acid20$1,411
Ketoconazole37$810
Desonide31$758
Mupirocin118$731

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
AmgenOtezla$1,633$87,42918 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 1,098 dermatology providers in Texas.

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