RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Schnee, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1437153020

Payments from drug & device makers

$14,056in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 666 payments — averaging $21.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Pfizer$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1K
  • Novartis$910
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$799
  • plus $7K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$14,049100%
  • Education$70%

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

$14,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$201,278
Medicare patients
445
Services billed
2,884

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
EliquisApixaban353$453,154
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan254$274,567
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab264$186,825
JardianceEmpagliflozin92$111,443
XareltoRivaroxaban78$79,758
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol53$50,114
MultaqDronedarone Hcl25$37,112
Praluent PenAlirocumab50$33,739
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab25$28,503
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl43$27,752
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium17$15,552
Icosapent Ethyl27$12,607
Metoprolol Succinate560$11,681
VerquvoVericiguat14$9,117
BrilintaTicagrelor12$8,500

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$1,647$453,154353 claims
NovartisEntresto$910$274,567254 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$542$111,44392 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,840$79,75878 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$191$58,61465 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$799$37,11225 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$339$15,55217 claims
MerckVerquvo$515$9,11714 claims
AmgenCorlanor$1,330$7,03512 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 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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