RxDoctor Payments Data

Guillermo Morell, MD

Nephrology · Houston, TXNPI 1346238268

Payments from drug & device makers

$758in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $27.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$183
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$134
  • AstraZeneca$85
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$75
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$63
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$48
  • plus $170 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$65887%
  • Education$10013%

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

$758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,561
Medicare patients
90
Services billed
338

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol55$42,123
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate13$19,905
Sevelamer Carbonate49$17,763
Calcium Acetate17$1,964
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified12$1,322
Levothyroxine Sodium36$697
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen23$644
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate13$580
Nifedipine ErNifedipine26$535
Atorvastatin Calcium37$431
Gabapentin34$391
Prednisone31$251
Furosemide18$245
Carvedilol35$205
Pregabalin14$204

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$85$62,02868 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 1,070 nephrology providers in Texas.

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