RxDoctor Payments Data

Naga Bushan, MD

Rheumatology · Lubbock, TXNPI 1740262757

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,986in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 309 payments — averaging $16.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Eli Lilly$1K
  • GSK$359
  • Johnson & Johnson$199
  • Novartis$187
  • plus $479 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,80399%
  • Education$551%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie114$1,436
Amgen(2 entities)97$1,197
Eli Lilly2$1,129
GSK34$359
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)13$199
Novartis19$187
Pfizer19$174
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.1$94
AstraZeneca1$72
Genentech USA, Inc.5$69
Sanofi2$38
Sobi, Inc1$19
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.1$12

How this compares

$4,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,757,401
Medicare patients
638
Services billed
173,962

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) PenAdalimumab135$1,470,102
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept124$1,002,497
RinvoqUpadacitinib68$549,001
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept47$304,702
EnbrelEtanercept21$277,390
Humira(Cf)Adalimumab34$266,608
Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab28$249,226
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol15$88,019
SimponiGolimumab12$83,010
OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose12$51,708
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate1,065$30,411
ActemraTocilizumab12$28,268
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab11$24,427
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium752$19,902
Mycophenolate Mofetil97$11,331

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, Humira(Cf)$1,436$815,609102 claims
AmgenEnbrel$1,197$277,39021 claims
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$199$83,01012 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia$12$51,70812 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 45th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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