RxDoctor Payments Data

Ethan Burns, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1962933705

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,360in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $31.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$238
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$205
  • Amgen$167
  • Sanofi$157
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$147
  • Lilly USA, LLC$141
  • plus $1K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,70472%
  • Education$65628%

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

$2,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$111,766
Medicare patients
267
Services billed
963

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
SprycelDasatinib11$109,576
VenclextaVenetoclax40$50,768
EliquisApixaban43$33,596
Posaconazole12$23,123
Imatinib Mesylate25$18,084
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl80$5,171
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified12$4,736
Cefdinir14$1,502
Fluconazole22$975
Hydroxyurea30$587
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen13$371
Potassium Chloride14$345
Mirtazapine32$298
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron25$242
Ondansetron Hcl25$195

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
AbbVieVenclexta$98$50,76840 claims
PfizerEliquis$74$33,59643 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 30th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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