RxDoctor Payments Data

Iman Ali, MD

Rheumatology · Bedford, TXNPI 1164466272

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,716in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 130 payments — averaging $28.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$726
  • Amgen$654
  • GSK$516
  • Pfizer$452
  • UCB, Inc.$330
  • Novartis$264
  • plus $773 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,701100%
  • Education$150%

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

$3,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$260,156
Medicare patients
87
Services billed
15,917

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
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol23$152,988
RinvoqUpadacitinib18$126,470
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate16$125,274
BenlystaBelimumab16$102,204
XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate13$74,209
Cevimeline Hcl22$4,114
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate119$3,457
Pilocarpine Hcl55$2,947
Mycophenolate Mofetil27$2,045
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium13$1,643
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen52$1,137
Gabapentin98$1,097
Methylprednisolone23$972
Montelukast Sodium56$715
Duloxetine Hcl41$630

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
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$330$152,98823 claims
AbbVieRinvoq$726$126,47018 claims
GSKBenlysta$516$102,20416 claims
PfizerXeljanz$452$74,20913 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 40th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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