RxDoctor Payments Data

Jana Swearingen

Family · Lumberton, TXNPI 1215414321

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,453in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 171 payments — averaging $20.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$662
  • Abbott$618
  • Boston Scientific$386
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$302
  • Novartis$234
  • Johnson & Johnson$211
  • plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,442100%
  • Education$110%

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

$3,453 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban34$28,772
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan19$21,554
Ranolazine ErRanolazine15$965
Atorvastatin Calcium36$557
Metoprolol Succinate38$517
Carvedilol34$470
Hydralazine Hcl12$393
Losartan Potassium20$310
Amlodipine Besylate52$305
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate27$286
Rosuvastatin Calcium15$152
Lisinopril18$143
Metoprolol Tartrate24$125
Hydrochlorothiazide15$76
Furosemide12$60

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$177$28,77234 claims
NovartisEntresto$234$21,55419 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 15,456 family providers in Texas.

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