RxDoctor Payments Data

Elenita Rosado, MD

Geriatric Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1144403486

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 75 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,025 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $127 in 2024.

$1,242in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 75 payments — averaging $16.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$168
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$144
  • AstraZeneca$129
  • Sanofi$127
  • AbbVie$104
  • Amgen$100
  • plus $470 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,242100%

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

$1,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 275 geriatric medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$62,462
Medicare patients
119
Services billed
684

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol49$52,872
OzempicSemaglutide47$42,046
JardianceEmpagliflozin28$37,403
EliquisApixaban60$31,217
RybelsusSemaglutide13$28,771
XareltoRivaroxaban50$25,668
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$18,242
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$14,772
MyrbetriqMirabegron17$13,834
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$10,239
TradjentaLinagliptin17$7,736
Atorvastatin Calcium436$5,969
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$4,880
Glucagon Emergency KitGlucagon17$4,535
Sucralfate31$4,520

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$42$70,81760 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$129$52,87249 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$168$45,13945 claims
PfizerEliquis$60$31,21760 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$73$25,66850 claims
NovartisEntresto$11$18,24222 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$88$14,77213 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$37$13,83417 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 80th percentile of 275 geriatric medicine providers in Texas.

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