RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Harms, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1669869285

Payments from drug & device makers

$32,977in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 594 payments — averaging $55.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$8K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$3K
  • Cagent Vascular Inc$3K
  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$2K
  • plus $12K from 40 others
$166in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $165.95 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Abiomed$166

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,0753%
  • Travel & lodging$6,47520%
  • Food & beverage$25,15976%
  • Education$2681%

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

$32,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,056
Medicare patients
23
Services billed
61

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
EliquisApixaban190$210,075
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan30$38,793
XareltoRivaroxaban44$35,461
BrilintaTicagrelor28$19,219
Atorvastatin Calcium325$10,554
Ezetimibe55$8,125
Metoprolol Succinate281$7,500
Rosuvastatin Calcium129$6,339
Ranolazine ErRanolazine27$5,300
Losartan Potassium163$4,114
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate157$4,031
Bumetanide39$3,770
Valsartan38$2,691
Pravastatin Sodium59$2,548
Carvedilol131$2,515

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$385$210,075190 claims
NovartisEntresto$211$38,79330 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$18$35,46144 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$212$19,21928 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 80th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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