RxDoctor Payments Data

Nisar Hussain, MD

Internal Medicine · Brownsville, TXNPI 1851377089

Payments from drug & device makers

$226in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $22.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$147
  • Atricure, Inc.$27
  • Pfizer$20
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$19
  • Novo Nordisk$15

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$226100%

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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25

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.

How this compares

$226 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$188,588
Medicare patients
287
Services billed
3,169

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
OzempicSemaglutide380$379,777
JardianceEmpagliflozin293$289,283
TradjentaLinagliptin230$191,233
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol132$132,609
EliquisApixaban180$115,172
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl197$103,866
XifaxanRifaximin28$76,182
MounjaroTirzepatide40$42,547
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan41$41,775
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec55$30,355
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$22,363
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter25$21,480
RybelsusSemaglutide14$20,421
XareltoRivaroxaban26$19,573
LinzessLinaclotide26$17,996

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Jentadueto$19$493,574547 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$15$400,198394 claims
PfizerEliquis$20$115,172180 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$147$53,74252 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 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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