RxDoctor Payments Data

Mona Iversen, MD

Rheumatology · Houston, TXNPI 1720249055

Payments from drug & device makers

$18,123in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 976 payments — averaging $18.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$6K
  • Amgen$4K
  • UCB, Inc.$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1K
  • Novartis$962
  • plus $3K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$17,88599%
  • Education$2381%

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

$18,123 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,838,937
Medicare patients
530
Services billed
116,678

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab18$161,985
RinvoqUpadacitinib20$127,276
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept11$77,962
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol12$68,982
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium137$3,813
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate65$3,191
Prednisone227$1,875
Leflunomide19$1,235
Febuxostat13$1,009
Celecoxib22$445
Tramadol Hcl59$352
Gabapentin58$319
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl21$316
Allopurinol52$260
Meloxicam52$154

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
AbbVieRinvoq$6,184$127,27620 claims
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$1,156$68,98212 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 65th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

Other rheumatology in Houston

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