Benjamin Perez-Ruiz
Adult Health · Houston, TXNPI 1548825201
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $40.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$365
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$323
- AstraZeneca$223
- Johnson & Johnson$186
- Endo USA, Inc.$141
- Gilead$140
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,525100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $365 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 10 | $323 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $186 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Gilead | 3 | $140 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $131 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $122 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 4 | $113 |
| Abbott | 1 | $111 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $101 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $94 |
| Merck | 4 | $82 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $54 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $33 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $26 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- BREZTRI$125
- GEMTESA$122
- XIAFLEX$122
- CEREZYME$122
- CERDELGA$122
- FABRAZYME$122
- XTANDI$112
- FREESTYLE LIBRE 3$111
- UZEDY$110
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$101
How this compares
$2,525 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 933 adult health providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 125 | $2,033 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 65 | $1,945 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 34 | $1,540 |
| Estradiol | 11 | $767 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 14 | $738 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 59 | $651 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 70 | $448 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 22 | $444 |
| Cefdinir | 42 | $389 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 38 | $306 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 12 | $298 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 23 | $294 |
| Finasteride | 31 | $242 |
| Losartan Potassium | 21 | $217 |
| NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal | 14 | $200 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Brandy KhodrHouston$10K
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.