RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Franklin, MD

Otolaryngology · Houston, TXNPI 1336126598

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,810in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $60.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Acclarent, Inc$1K
  • Medtronic$672
  • Optinose US, Inc.$502
  • Stryker$402
  • Aerin Medical Inc.$369
  • GSK$320
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$60%
  • Food & beverage$4,804100%

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

$4,810 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$276,421
Medicare patients
770
Services billed
7,387

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
Azelastine Hcl346$11,828
Epinephrine49$7,368
Fluticasone Propionate491$6,142
Ofloxacin112$3,067
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone15$2,587
Ipratropium Bromide39$1,167
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav110$892
Montelukast Sodium87$883
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil46$859
Famotidine101$789
Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate13$633
Cefdinir17$358
Mupirocin48$313
Levothyroxine Sodium12$273
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil13$272

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
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAEpinephrine$17$7,36849 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 70th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.

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