RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Newmark, MD

Neurology · Houston, TXNPI 1477649655

Payments from drug & device makers

$23,687in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $1393.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • UCB Biosciences Inc.$17K
  • UCB SA$6K
  • AbbVie$20
  • Abbott$17
  • Biogen$15
  • Insightec,inc$14
  • plus $24 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$91100%

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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23

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

$23,687 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,574
Medicare patients
12
Services billed
15

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
XcopriCenobamate65$70,543
Dimethyl Fumarate14$51,589
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe44$34,530
Felbamate18$22,844
Lacosamide71$13,442
FycompaPerampanel11$13,279
Carbamazepine90$10,595
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine65$9,150
Tegretol XrCarbamazepine13$8,846
Levetiracetam221$8,221
Memantine Hcl84$8,207
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa154$4,593
Lamotrigine90$3,885
Azathioprine18$3,734
Donepezil Hcl196$3,684

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
SK Life Science, Inc.Xcopri$12$70,54365 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 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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