RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Lenz, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1023095593

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,053in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 445 payments — averaging $15.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • AbbVie$655
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$642
  • Johnson & Johnson$633
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$393
  • AstraZeneca$346
  • plus $3K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$7,041100%
  • Education$130%

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
20
21
22
23
24
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.

How this compares

$7,053 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

See all internal medicine providers in Texas

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$193,111
Medicare patients
305
Services billed
10,847

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
OzempicSemaglutide91$86,867
XareltoRivaroxaban72$79,623
EliquisApixaban96$77,343
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol49$46,394
MyrbetriqMirabegron46$35,220
JardianceEmpagliflozin28$28,022
NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl19$14,380
MounjaroTirzepatide13$13,102
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium144$11,626
TrulancePlecanatide15$11,128
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate24$9,647
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec11$9,590
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil20$8,759
Celecoxib95$6,409
LinzessLinaclotide11$6,121

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$167$86,86791 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$633$79,62372 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$310$78,772112 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$346$46,39449 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$133$35,22046 claims
AbbVieNamzaric, Synthroid, Linzess$655$32,127174 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$18$28,02228 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$61$13,10213 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$1,113$11,12815 claims
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Xtampza Er$61$9,64724 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi$270$8,75920 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$27$5,102428 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 90th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

Other internal medicine in Houston

See the full list for Texas

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →