RxDoctor Payments Data

John Burpeau, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1932106937

Payments from drug & device makers

$859in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $22.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$271
  • Novo Nordisk$161
  • Pfizer$145
  • AstraZeneca$56
  • Lilly USA, LLC$46
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$37
  • plus $142 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$84598%
  • Education$142%

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

$859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$39,201
Medicare patients
152
Services billed
904

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
EliquisApixaban48$41,631
OzempicSemaglutide17$36,347
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$28,775
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$20,834
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol13$13,539
XareltoRivaroxaban16$13,355
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab20$10,953
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole23$9,906
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium37$3,154
Rosuvastatin Calcium143$2,336
XanaxAlprazolam14$2,294
Febuxostat12$2,026
Sertraline Hcl14$1,842
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl34$1,707
Atorvastatin Calcium114$1,556

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$145$41,63148 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$161$36,34717 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$18$28,77529 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$56$13,53913 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$16$94063 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 65th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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