RxDoctor Payments Data

Jude Aririguzo, MD

Internal Medicine · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1376732677

Payments from drug & device makers

$48in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $15.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$20
  • Amgen$16
  • Lilly USA, LLC$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$48100%

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

19
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novo Nordisk1$20
Amgen1$16
Lilly USA, LLC1$12

How this compares

$48 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$315,596
Medicare patients
300
Services billed
2,818

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
MounjaroTirzepatide111$149,416
OzempicSemaglutide50$68,764
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$39,981
EliquisApixaban41$34,170
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$17,512
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl15$13,889
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$12,178
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$11,751
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen258$4,075
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$2,590
Gabapentin106$2,503
Nifedipine ErNifedipine41$2,044
Insulin Lispro Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro11$1,874
Valsartan38$1,538
Atorvastatin Calcium190$1,311

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$12$149,416111 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$20$68,76450 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 20th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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