RxDoctor Payments Data

Murtaza Ghadiali, MD

Otolaryngology · Houston, TXNPI 1275735383

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,619in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 135 payments — averaging $78.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intersect ENT, Inc.$3K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
  • Aerin Medical Inc.$1K
  • Medtronic$840
  • Optinose US, Inc.$781
  • Acclarent, Inc$627
  • plus $3K from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$751%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4004%
  • Travel & lodging$3,43832%
  • Food & beverage$6,70263%
  • Gifts$40%

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

$10,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$557,106
Medicare patients
1,048
Services billed
29,350

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
Epinephrine37$6,625
Azelastine Hcl178$6,555
Fluticasone Propionate354$5,489
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth34$3,920
Famotidine140$1,271
Ofloxacin51$1,244
Mometasone Furoate16$1,135
Cefdinir51$989
Ipratropium Bromide47$935
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav102$850
Omeprazole71$563
Montelukast Sodium33$469
Doxycycline Hyclate49$440
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride13$406
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil11$347

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
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAEpinephrine$86$6,62537 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 85th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.

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