RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Cua, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Brownsville, TXNPI 1841284668

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,480in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $25.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$291
  • AstraZeneca$215
  • Johnson & Johnson$159
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$145
  • Pfizer$138
  • Novartis$127
  • plus $404 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,18280%
  • Education$29820%

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

$1,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$313,032
Medicare patients
729
Services billed
5,656

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
EliquisApixaban243$349,698
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan201$280,104
XareltoRivaroxaban104$135,063
VerquvoVericiguat54$64,211
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$31,221
OzempicSemaglutide16$17,591
Clonidine27$3,771
Labetalol Hcl90$3,527
Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl29$3,324
Rosuvastatin Calcium181$3,113
Carvedilol360$3,032
Metoprolol Succinate207$3,022
Felodipine ErFelodipine109$2,896
Losartan Potassium245$2,817
Flecainide Acetate56$2,688

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$138$349,698243 claims
NovartisEntresto$127$280,104201 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$159$135,063104 claims
MerckVerquvo$83$64,21154 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$31,22121 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$17$17,59116 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 30th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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