RxDoctor Payments Data

Joel Kneitz, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1356327498

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,536in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $28.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$562
  • GSK$240
  • Pfizer$232
  • Lilly USA, LLC$200
  • Exact Sciences$171
  • plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,524100%
  • Education$120%

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

$3,536 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,984
Medicare patients
18
Services billed
32

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
OzempicSemaglutide27$35,512
Rosuvastatin Calcium66$737
Valsartan21$546
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium11$505
Omeprazole28$460
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate17$352
Levothyroxine Sodium30$302
Atorvastatin Calcium32$259
Pantoprazole Sodium14$207
Olmesartan Medoxomil11$206
Amlodipine Besylate31$180
Lisinopril17$171
Losartan Potassium18$140
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate11$104
Metformin Hcl15$74

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$562$35,51227 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$11$50511 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 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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