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Dewitt Leachman, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1184647018

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,208in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 626 payments — averaging $17.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$835
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$832
  • Merit Medical Systems Inc$761
  • Amgen$658
  • plus $6K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$10,36793%
  • Education$801%
  • Other$7617%

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

$11,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$75,953
Medicare patients
345
Services billed
1,065

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
EliquisApixaban174$253,351
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan46$66,998
XareltoRivaroxaban48$55,885
Praluent PenAlirocumab30$28,919
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab31$27,655
MultaqDronedarone Hcl18$27,089
Metoprolol Succinate468$10,669
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium16$10,353
Ranolazine ErRanolazine42$8,637
Atorvastatin Calcium592$7,554
Valsartan140$5,375
Ezetimibe170$4,738
Pitavastatin Calcium13$4,369
Rosuvastatin Calcium279$3,503
Losartan Potassium238$3,237

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$439$253,351174 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,109$66,99846 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,463$55,88548 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$402$27,08918 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$475$10,35316 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 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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