RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Zertuche, MD

Family Medicine · Pleasanton, TXNPI 1992788087

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,074in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $21.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$273
  • Urovant Sciences Inc$194
  • Pfizer$74
  • Johnson & Johnson$74
  • Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$72
  • Lilly USA, LLC$60
  • plus $327 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,074100%

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

$1,074 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,015,708
Medicare patients
467
Services billed
13,312

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
EliquisApixaban627$187,385
EnbrelEtanercept13$112,167
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate27$110,544
JardianceEmpagliflozin264$92,370
TrulicityDulaglutide90$77,204
TradjentaLinagliptin140$52,146
NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate21$51,645
LinzessLinaclotide86$50,833
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter72$49,120
OzempicSemaglutide42$45,897
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate49$44,901
MyrbetriqMirabegron165$44,578
XareltoRivaroxaban150$42,346
Risperidone ErRisperidone Microspheres27$35,919
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium26$29,231

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
PfizerEliquis$74$187,385627 claims
AmgenEnbrel$29$112,16713 claims
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.Ingrezza$17$110,54427 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$60$101,247113 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Prezcobix$74$71,316161 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Namzaric$273$60,770115 claims
Acadia Pharmaceuticals IncNuplazid$15$51,64521 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$24$45,89742 claims
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom$25$44,90149 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$24$11,68749 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 60th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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