RxDoctor Payments Data

Haytham Al-Azzeh, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1437170438

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,469in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $18.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
  • Medtronic$172
  • Johnson & Johnson$75
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$32
  • Boston Scientific$25
  • Pfizer$24
  • plus $107 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,469100%

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

$1,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$179,039
Medicare patients
231
Services billed
1,959

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
EliquisApixaban132$157,015
BrilintaTicagrelor70$62,283
XareltoRivaroxaban21$20,684
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan26$19,882
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$15,540
Atorvastatin Calcium386$4,983
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate317$4,569
Metoprolol Succinate219$3,569
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl16$3,497
Rosuvastatin Calcium154$2,548
Losartan Potassium172$2,044
Amiodarone Hcl55$1,976
Ranolazine ErRanolazine22$1,853
Amlodipine Besylate212$1,830
Carvedilol210$1,742

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
PfizerEliquis$24$157,015132 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$75$20,68421 claims
NovartisEntresto$17$19,88226 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 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

Other cardiovascular disease in Houston

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