RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Lenihan, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Texas City, TXNPI 1780776799

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. at 52.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $28,364, 2.5 times the $11,430 reported in 2019.

$53,281in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $832.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.$28K
  • Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$10K
  • AstraZeneca$8K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$3K
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$2K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • plus $1K from 6 others
$590,356in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $11,807 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Eli Lilly$279K
  • Abbott$160K
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$50K
  • Pfizer$49K
  • Genentech, Inc.$29K
  • Ipsen Innovation$15K
  • plus $8K from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$21,03439%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$26,84550%
  • Travel & lodging$3,0146%
  • Food & beverage$2,3764%
  • Education$120%

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

$53,281 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 75 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$45,655
Medicare patients
405
Services billed
1,028

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
VyndamaxTafamidis12$310,951
JardianceEmpagliflozin264$245,517
EliquisApixaban217$205,672
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan126$121,350
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol132$105,411
XareltoRivaroxaban83$77,228
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab55$30,141
CorlanorIvabradine Hcl12$9,638
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$4,981
Valsartan244$4,900
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol36$3,644
Carvedilol485$2,401
Furosemide418$1,686
Amiodarone Hcl108$1,521
Torsemide62$1,259

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$1,309$516,624229 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$7,635$105,411132 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 75th percentile of 75 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Texas.

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