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Asif Cochinwala, MD

Rheumatology · Cypress, TXNPI 1245212521

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,225,185in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 342 payments — averaging $3582.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Regeneron$1.2M
  • Pfizer$15K
  • GSK$12K
  • Eli Lilly$11K
  • Biogen$10K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$10K
  • plus $11K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,75024%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3505%
  • Food & beverage$5,30571%
  • Education$230%

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

$1,225,185 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,174,451
Medicare patients
269
Services billed
103,278

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
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol35$265,911
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab33$257,982
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept13$95,732
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate12$67,505
InflectraInfliximab-Dyyb11$66,639
Teriparatide23$36,467
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate185$6,699
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium235$5,402
Leflunomide89$4,599
Mycophenolate Mofetil46$3,457
Risedronate Sodium57$3,364
Ibandronate Sodium90$2,623
Pilocarpine Hcl37$2,349
Prednisone330$1,839
Azathioprine36$1,364

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
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$1,102$265,91135 claims
PfizerInflectra$14,673$66,63911 claims
Alvogen IncTeriparatide$71$36,46723 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 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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