RxDoctor Payments Data

Hassaan Rasheed, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1679724801

Payments from drug & device makers

$256in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $18.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$64
  • AstraZeneca$64
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$61
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$37
  • Baxter Healthcare$16
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$11
  • plus $2 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$18070%
  • Education$7630%

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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25

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

$256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$136,715
Medicare patients
333
Services billed
1,035

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate11$8,714
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate15$1,355
Bumetanide24$1,183
Nifedipine ErNifedipine62$932
Sevelamer Carbonate11$596
Hydralazine Hcl29$528
Losartan Potassium68$520
Amlodipine Besylate42$499
Calcium Acetate12$423
Furosemide78$383
Calcitriol20$327
Metoprolol Succinate13$228
Lisinopril71$223
Potassium Chloride18$197
Carvedilol35$178

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
AstraZenecaLokelma$64$8,71411 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 45th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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