RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Mueller, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1376794750

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,329in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $16.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$404
  • Pfizer$259
  • Novo Nordisk$240
  • Dynavax Technologies Corporation$60
  • AbbVie$59
  • Dexcom, Inc.$51
  • plus $256 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,329100%

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

$1,329 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$129,995
Medicare patients
424
Services billed
1,358

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
EliquisApixaban63$74,620
OzempicSemaglutide36$41,202
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate30$29,727
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$25,066
XareltoRivaroxaban11$10,794
TrulicityDulaglutide11$10,178
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog16$9,300
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium64$5,015
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$4,757
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated15$4,587
Atorvastatin Calcium407$4,462
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog30$3,679
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine12$3,655
Levothyroxine Sodium251$3,261
Metoprolol Succinate123$2,858

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, Premarin$259$79,20778 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$240$41,20236 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$39$10,79411 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$59$5,01564 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$35$4,75712 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 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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