RxDoctor Payments Data

Brent Pennington, MD

Family Medicine · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1205098753

Payments from drug & device makers

$123in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $20.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$40
  • Johnson & Johnson$39
  • Smith+Nephew$27
  • Pfizer$17

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$123100%

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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21

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

$123 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$309,582
Medicare patients
501
Services billed
3,411

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
EliquisApixaban227$76,969
JardianceEmpagliflozin102$38,182
XareltoRivaroxaban94$27,084
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog61$20,076
OzempicSemaglutide12$12,177
MyrbetriqMirabegron47$11,713
RenvelaSevelamer Carbonate22$11,691
TrulicityDulaglutide11$11,518
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter17$10,921
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol25$9,794
Potassium Chloride227$6,558
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$6,295
Memantine Hcl186$5,723
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.14$5,440
Sevelamer Carbonate38$5,304

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$17$76,969227 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$39$27,08494 claims
Smith+NephewSantyl$27$5,44014 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 25th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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