RxDoctor Payments Data

Muhammad Khan

Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1740445014

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,718in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $21.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$412
  • Abbott$294
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$248
  • Novartis$182
  • Heartflow, Inc.$154
  • AstraZeneca$147
  • plus $1K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,718100%

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

$2,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$236,065
Medicare patients
469
Services billed
1,928

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
EliquisApixaban59$77,181
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab64$74,481
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$59,688
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan33$31,124
XareltoRivaroxaban17$23,993
Atorvastatin Calcium265$2,179
Midodrine Hcl17$1,392
Carvedilol121$993
Rosuvastatin Calcium73$980
Nifedipine ErNifedipine30$976
Cilostazol31$895
Pantoprazole Sodium53$732
Ezetimibe35$668
Amlodipine Besylate126$668
Metoprolol Succinate60$651

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$147$59,68844 claims
NovartisEntresto$182$31,12433 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$412$23,99317 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 40th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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