RxDoctor Payments Data

Gene Forrester, MD

Nephrology · Houston, TXNPI 1558345116

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,655in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $21.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$393
  • AstraZeneca$280
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$253
  • Novartis$235
  • Novo Nordisk$115
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$83
  • plus $296 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,59196%
  • Education$654%

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

$1,655 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$111,817
Medicare patients
130
Services billed
638

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
OzempicSemaglutide21$19,987
Sevelamer Carbonate26$9,201
Doxepin Hcl13$3,861
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate32$2,041
Doxazosin Mesylate35$1,360
Mycophenolate Mofetil16$1,244
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$1,000
Amlodipine Besylate48$539
Allopurinol45$535
Metoprolol Succinate19$519
Pantoprazole Sodium29$423
Rosuvastatin Calcium12$420
Clonidine Hcl37$383
Minoxidil12$330
Gabapentin33$297

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$115$19,98721 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 50th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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