RxDoctor Payments Data

Ashkan Zand, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Pasadena, TXNPI 1639599632

Payments from drug & device makers

$18,838in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 518 payments — averaging $36.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Corcept Therapeutics$6K
  • Dexcom, Inc.$2K
  • Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • Radius Health, Inc.$1K
  • Abbott$1K
  • plus $5K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,94026%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$8855%
  • Food & beverage$12,90068%
  • Education$1131%

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

$18,838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$401,461
Medicare patients
464
Services billed
5,347

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
KorlymMifepristone54$1,873,722
MounjaroTirzepatide492$784,664
OzempicSemaglutide375$609,052
RecorlevLevoketoconazole15$363,722
JardianceEmpagliflozin246$312,333
TymlosAbaloparatide36$97,352
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol83$92,895
Fiasp FlextouchInsulin Aspart (Niacinamide)97$78,162
TradjentaLinagliptin68$75,583
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec103$73,097
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec73$67,428
RybelsusSemaglutide27$40,745
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl24$35,800
Lyumjev Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro-Aabc47$34,466
KerendiaFinerenone33$33,504

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
Corcept TherapeuticsKorlym$6,387$1,873,72254 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity, Lyumjev$651$822,570534 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Fiasp$1,518$669,609420 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy Xr, Glyxambi, Trijardy Xr$75$472,485394 claims
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Recorlev$1,714$363,72215 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$1,016$97,35236 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$228$92,89583 claims
BayerKerendia$530$33,50433 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$171$32,94629 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$89$28,09380 claims
AmgenProlia$618$20,22512 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 70th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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