RxDoctor Payments Data

Ester Pollard, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1225002843

Payments from drug & device makers

$239,824in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,302 payments — averaging $184.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Incyte Corporation$212K
  • Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$6K
  • Novartis$2K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Merck$1K
  • plus $15K from 54 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,20011%
  • Travel & lodging$8003%
  • Food & beverage$22,92881%
  • Education$1,4205%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Incyte Corporation144$212,120
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.94$6,217
Novartis113$1,937
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.105$1,686
AstraZeneca(2 entities)43$1,446
Merck60$1,178
Amgen58$1,090
Pfizer73$927
Sanofi40$800
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.34$708
Genentech USA, Inc.31$674
Astellas Pharma US Inc23$588
GSK23$580
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation24$580
Sobi, Inc20$515
Seagen Inc.23$489
Eisai Inc.20$479
Johnson & Johnson23$479
Bristol Myers Squibb23$468
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.19$456
Taiho Oncology, Inc.18$396
Bayer20$394
Tersera Therapeutics LLC15$374
Gilead(2 entities)16$360
AbbVie10$264
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.11$262
Array Biopharma Inc12$247
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.10$228
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC3$224
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.9$194
Dova Pharmaceuticals12$183
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.12$183
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.11$181
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$181
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.7$177
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.7$175
Beigene USA, Inc.8$154
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.6$141
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.7$131
Lilly USA, LLC9$131
Verastem, Inc.12$129
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.1$121
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.6$105
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.6$100
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.6$99
Tesaro, Inc.3$92
Secura Bio, Inc.5$87
Boehringer Ingelheim4$76
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.4$69
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company3$61
EMD Serono, Inc.4$59
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.3$59
Exelixis Inc.3$58
Foundation Medicine, Inc.4$55
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc3$50
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.3$49
Myovant Sciences Inc.2$49
Acrotech Biopharma Inc.3$47
CTI Biopharma Corp.2$46
Amicus Therapeutics, Inc.3$44

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

$239,824 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$80,440
Medicare patients
105
Services billed
2,545

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
JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate26$650,803
PromactaEltrombopag Olamine38$444,298
FotivdaTivozanib Hcl13$390,762
TavalisseFostamatinib Disodium29$345,873
TasignaNilotinib Hcl31$312,387
VenclextaVenetoclax32$203,660
BesremiRopeginterferon Alfa-2b-Njft11$169,219
ZarxioFilgrastim-Sndz25$63,590
EliquisApixaban33$33,602
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen947$26,744
XareltoRivaroxaban31$21,524
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$17,799
Fentanyl84$7,438
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate21$4,315
Clonidine25$3,238

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
NovartisPromacta, Tasigna$1,937$756,68569 claims
Incyte CorporationJakafi$212,120$650,80326 claims
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Tavalisse$6,217$345,87329 claims
AbbVieVenclexta$264$203,66032 claims
Pharmaessentia USA CorporationBesremi$580$169,21911 claims
PfizerEliquis$927$33,60233 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$479$21,52431 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$76$17,79922 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$1,446$4,31521 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 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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