Brandon Vu
Internal Medicine · Arlington, TXNPI 1609452663
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $19.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$182
- Pfizer$179
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$115
- Vertex$110
- GSK$99
- AstraZeneca$91
- plus $932 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,63996%
- Education$704%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $182 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $179 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 3 | $115 |
| Vertex | 5 | $110 |
| GSK | 5 | $99 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $91 |
| Bayer | 5 | $90 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $89 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $80 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $79 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $74 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $45 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $37 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Amgen | 2 | $32 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $32 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $30 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $19 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,709 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Alprazolam | 11 | $41 |
| Azithromycin | 15 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Arlington
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Salma SaigerMesquite$16.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.