RxDoctor Payments Data

Nadeem Patel, MD

Internal Medicine · Decatur, TXNPI 1902809486

Payments from drug & device makers

$906in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $25.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$185
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$135
  • Abbott$130
  • AbbVie$112
  • Merck$95
  • Pfizer$75
  • plus $173 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$131%
  • Food & beverage$89399%

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

$906 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$109,370
Medicare patients
269
Services billed
956

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
EliquisApixaban28$16,712
XareltoRivaroxaban16$7,311
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate15$463
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen33$359
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron19$275
Pantoprazole Sodium47$268
Nitroglycerin11$245
Famotidine23$208
Cefdinir21$207
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav21$198
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine28$156
Doxycycline Monohydrate12$132
Furosemide29$113
Doxycycline Hyclate16$108
Methylprednisolone12$99

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
PfizerEliquis$75$16,71228 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$185$7,31116 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 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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