RxDoctor Payments Data

Frederick Rushford, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Cypress, TXNPI 1366440265

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,658in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 949 payments — averaging $18.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Radius Health, Inc.$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • plus $10K from 51 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$901%
  • Food & beverage$17,45299%
  • Education$1161%

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.

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

$17,658 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$148,673
Medicare patients
634
Services billed
2,564

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
OzempicSemaglutide236$401,661
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl332$270,893
JardianceEmpagliflozin113$176,317
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol116$133,106
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl106$127,602
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec67$108,251
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate69$84,764
TradjentaLinagliptin67$72,856
TymlosAbaloparatide19$69,833
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium531$57,396
TrulicityDulaglutide29$52,299
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog31$46,839
MounjaroTirzepatide28$40,296
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres17$36,253
Teriparatide14$34,290

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, Novolog$1,361$439,961278 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Jentadueto Xr, Synjardy Xr$392$291,875246 claims
MerckJanumet Xr, Januvia$352$212,366175 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,619$133,106116 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro, Humalog$1,094$99,33072 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$1,452$69,83319 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$750$57,396531 claims
Johnson & JohnsonInvokana$215$24,80119 claims
IBSA Pharma Inc.Tirosint$811$4,54926 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCUnithroid$470$3,30956 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 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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