RxDoctor Payments Data

Monty Tew, MD

Rheumatology · West Lake Hills, TXNPI 1942266689

Payments from drug & device makers

$37,354in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,159 payments — averaging $32.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$10K
  • AbbVie$4K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$4K
  • Amgen$3K
  • UCB, Inc.$2K
  • Novartis$2K
  • plus $12K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$15,57742%
  • Travel & lodging$2321%
  • Food & beverage$21,17857%
  • Education$3671%

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

$37,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,479,167
Medicare patients
681
Services billed
120,231

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept193$1,665,840
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab131$1,202,430
RinvoqUpadacitinib101$692,290
EnbrelEtanercept36$412,914
SimponiGolimumab30$277,286
XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate35$234,748
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept26$234,408
OrenciaAbatacept23$227,961
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol31$227,149
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate13$156,081
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab37$149,307
OtezlaApremilast25$125,607
ActemraTocilizumab22$121,989
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate509$18,527
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium464$14,906

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$3,957$692,290101 claims
AmgenEnbrel, Otezla$3,107$538,52161 claims
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$9,761$277,28630 claims
PfizerXeljanz$1,305$234,74835 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia$774$227,96123 claims
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$2,270$227,14931 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 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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