RxDoctor Payments Data

Chris Sparkman, MD

Family Medicine · Shenandoah, TXNPI 1073618104

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,796in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 295 payments — averaging $16.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$681
  • Novartis$262
  • Lilly USA, LLC$252
  • AstraZeneca$239
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$214
  • plus $2K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,785100%
  • Education$120%

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

$4,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$302,263
Medicare patients
237
Services billed
4,217

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
MounjaroTirzepatide85$114,533
OzempicSemaglutide44$58,329
TrulicityDulaglutide20$29,159
TradjentaLinagliptin28$27,895
EliquisApixaban39$26,964
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$23,963
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec15$23,401
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab24$22,154
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$19,321
RybelsusSemaglutide13$14,182
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol14$8,563
Ezetimibe189$8,174
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated12$7,267
Rosuvastatin Calcium334$4,717
Colesevelam Hcl15$4,516

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$252$143,692105 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$166$72,51157 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin, Paxlovid$106$35,65965 claims
Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta$75$27,89528 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$239$23,96316 claims
MerckJanuvia$16$19,32118 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$89$8,56314 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,168$3,62939 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 85th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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