RxDoctor Payments Data

Maria Biju, APRN

Gerontology · Houston, TXNPI 1497296735

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,271in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 137 payments — averaging $23.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$938
  • Novartis$384
  • Boston Scientific$369
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$240
  • Merck$206
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$196
  • plus $938 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,271100%

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

$3,271 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 653 gerontology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$21,908
Medicare patients
154
Services billed
208

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
EliquisApixaban68$77,991
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan21$22,931
XareltoRivaroxaban14$20,953
Metoprolol Tartrate118$984
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate89$847
Metoprolol Succinate50$804
Carvedilol65$618
Atorvastatin Calcium88$602
Olmesartan Medoxomil34$599
Losartan Potassium47$500
Pravastatin Sodium18$448
Lisinopril51$438
Rosuvastatin Calcium25$372
Potassium Chloride13$238
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate12$206

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
NovartisEntresto$384$22,93121 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$140$20,95314 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 653 gerontology providers in Texas.

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