RxDoctor Payments Data

Gildardo Ceballos, MD

Internal Medicine · Sugar Land, TXNPI 1689956906

Payments from drug & device makers

$220,324in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 588 payments — averaging $374.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$156K
  • Novo Nordisk AS$52K
  • Vifor (international) Ltd.$4K
  • Pfizer$4K
  • AbbVie$794
  • Novo Nordisk$717
  • plus $4K from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,310100%
  • Education$120%

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

$220,324 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$345,248
Medicare patients
422
Services billed
3,702

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
OzempicSemaglutide187$239,739
MounjaroTirzepatide166$186,326
JardianceEmpagliflozin121$119,576
AustedoDeutetrabenazine16$107,788
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate89$85,449
EliquisApixaban80$62,716
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol72$51,502
LinzessLinaclotide54$49,156
RybelsusSemaglutide37$47,739
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl23$24,298
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium36$24,001
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$22,948
TrulicityDulaglutide16$22,666
Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres14$19,965
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl23$19,837

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$717$287,478224 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$358$208,992182 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Tradjenta, Jentadueto$129$168,675184 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$147$109,747112 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo$71$107,78816 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta, Symbicort, Breztri Aerosphere$538$75,273114 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Qulipta$794$64,41866 claims
PfizerEliquis$3,660$62,71680 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$60$24,00136 claims
NovartisEntresto$39$22,94822 claims
AmgenProlia$374$18,55611 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$191$13,92021 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 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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