RxDoctor Payments Data

Azka Sadiq, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1932698925

Payments from drug & device makers

$280in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $19.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$50
  • Pfizer$45
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$43
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$38
  • AstraZeneca$23
  • Exact Sciences$20
  • plus $61 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$280100%

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

22
23
25

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

$280 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,543
Medicare patients
183
Services billed
736

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
OzempicSemaglutide33$41,235
RybelsusSemaglutide17$23,483
MounjaroTirzepatide19$21,993
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$21,382
Rosuvastatin Calcium173$2,038
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium16$1,575
Levothyroxine Sodium143$1,506
Losartan Potassium119$1,078
Atorvastatin Calcium125$932
Fluticasone Propionate58$867
Escitalopram Oxalate48$837
Pantoprazole Sodium76$807
Amlodipine Besylate155$717
Azelastine Hcl30$701
Pravastatin Sodium44$695

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$14$64,71750 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 45th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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