RxDoctor Payments Data

Mohamed Shehata, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1932217478

Payments from drug & device makers

$465in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $35.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$273
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$42
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$34
  • Johnson & Johnson$32
  • Exact Sciences$28
  • Amgen$18
  • plus $38 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$4410%
  • Food & beverage$42090%

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

$465 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$163,336
Medicare patients
80
Services billed
1,984

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
EliquisApixaban52$56,774
TradjentaLinagliptin14$21,124
TrulicityDulaglutide21$18,626
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$18,322
OzempicSemaglutide14$16,889
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate20$15,778
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$11,986
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol18$11,629
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl17$9,819
Pantoprazole Sodium112$3,394
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog19$2,828
Nifedipine ErNifedipine58$2,254
Gabapentin96$1,955
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$1,896
Scopolamine15$1,867

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
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$17$18,62621 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 55th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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