RxDoctor Payments Data

Gloria Salazar Cintora, MD

Rheumatology · Houston, TXNPI 1720334246

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,065in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $44.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$801
  • AbbVie$440
  • Amgen$236
  • UCB, Inc.$188
  • Johnson & Johnson$130
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$121
  • plus $148 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,86490%
  • Education$20210%

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
Boston Scientific7$801
AbbVie17$440
Amgen8$236
UCB, Inc.2$188
Johnson & Johnson3$130
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.1$121
Novartis6$114
GSK1$23
Pfizer1$12

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

$2,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$19,709
Medicare patients
76
Services billed
196

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab87$602,672
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab34$253,763
Humira(Cf)Adalimumab17$115,510
BenlystaBelimumab12$57,179
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab13$31,207
OtrexupMethotrexate/Pf21$14,844
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium22$10,135
Mycophenolate Mofetil52$5,656
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate89$3,344
Leflunomide56$2,446
Celecoxib36$2,303
Sulfasalazine53$1,449
Prednisone161$1,108
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium59$722
Azathioprine15$623

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
AbbVieHumira(Cf)$440$115,51017 claims
GSKBenlysta$23$57,17912 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 35th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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