RxDoctor Payments Data

Julia Hope, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1679520399

Payments from drug & device makers

$419in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $16.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$100
  • AstraZeneca$56
  • Pfizer$56
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$37
  • Novo Nordisk$32
  • Optinose US, Inc.$32
  • plus $105 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$40597%
  • Education$143%

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.

How this compares

$419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$24,137
Medicare patients
97
Services billed
459

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
OzempicSemaglutide14$13,315
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium42$4,813
Levothyroxine Sodium106$1,498
Pantoprazole Sodium48$1,180
Estradiol17$1,138
Valsartan15$895
Rosuvastatin Calcium48$886
Atorvastatin Calcium68$839
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen23$687
Bisoprolol Fumarate12$578
Losartan Potassium39$548
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl15$498
Celecoxib26$494
Metoprolol Succinate18$491
Omeprazole24$449

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$32$13,31514 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$16$1,498106 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 55th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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