RxDoctor Payments Data

Irene Ekaney, MD

Infectious Disease · Sugar Land, TXNPI 1639120827

Payments from drug & device makers

$19,798in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 944 payments — averaging $20.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$3K
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$3K
  • Gilead$3K
  • Merck$2K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$1K
  • plus $5K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$19,38398%
  • Education$4152%

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

$19,798 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 576 infectious disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$208,284
Medicare patients
194
Services billed
45,698

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala110$463,438
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam40$96,015
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi21$76,039
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf15$70,688
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium24$61,520
OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala16$58,039
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen14$52,393
Daptomycin23$37,713
Meropenem25$4,793
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium37$2,745
Linezolid14$1,340
Rifampin16$973
Ethambutol Hcl16$779
Fluconazole12$691
Azithromycin26$439

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
GileadBiktarvy, Descovy, Genvoya$2,507$611,847164 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTriumeq, Tivicay$3,055$137,56045 claims
Janssen Products, LPSymtuza$99$70,68815 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 85th percentile of 576 infectious disease providers in Texas.

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