RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Emesiani, MD

Rheumatology · McKinney, TXNPI 1407387533

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,502in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 287 payments — averaging $22.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • UCB, Inc.$735
  • Johnson & Johnson$543
  • AstraZeneca$471
  • Pfizer$313
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,40398%
  • Education$992%

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.

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.

How this compares

$6,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$35,703
Medicare patients
141
Services billed
716

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
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept13$117,898
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate93$3,971
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium90$3,398
Leflunomide36$1,913
Colchicine16$796
Prednisone90$602
Sulfasalazine18$438
Allopurinol39$278
Folic Acid21$166
Meloxicam27$107
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl13$85

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
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$34$79616 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 50th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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