RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Nicola, MD

Family Medicine · Spring Branch, TXNPI 1124096581

Payments from drug & device makers

$390in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $32.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$190
  • GSK$68
  • Medtronic$44
  • Novartis$32
  • AbbVie$24
  • Intuitive Surgical$18
  • plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$390100%

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

$390 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$238,059
Medicare patients
1,047
Services billed
3,028

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
OzempicSemaglutide113$124,177
EliquisApixaban53$66,369
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol31$40,822
TrulicityDulaglutide20$23,525
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter23$13,948
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog37$4,964
Cephalexin12$4,589
Levothyroxine Sodium252$2,535
Atorvastatin Calcium345$2,360
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate75$2,262
Eszopiclone28$1,959
Losartan Potassium200$1,929
Temazepam31$1,712
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl48$1,640
Duloxetine Hcl54$1,630

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$190$40,82231 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$68$13,94823 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$24$76223 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 45th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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