RxDoctor Payments Data

Odilon Alvarado, MD

Internal Medicine · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1275563389

Payments from drug & device makers

$46,501in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 338 payments — averaging $137.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$20K
  • AstraZeneca$11K
  • Novo Nordisk$5K
  • Amgen$5K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$772
  • AbbVie$637
  • plus $5K from 30 others
$8,223in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $483.71 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Amgen$7K
  • Gilead$996

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,44328%
  • Food & beverage$8,92672%
  • Education$250%

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

$46,501 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$19,381
Medicare patients
99
Services billed
257

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin87$90,122
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate52$49,450
OzempicSemaglutide36$46,831
EliquisApixaban36$30,889
XareltoRivaroxaban29$30,688
TrulicityDulaglutide20$24,532
LinzessLinaclotide39$24,363
TradjentaLinagliptin19$14,406
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$7,408
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog14$5,326
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog18$4,560
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro14$3,717
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen120$3,704
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters16$2,700
Atorvastatin Calcium349$2,565

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$586$104,528106 claims
MerckJanuvia$190$49,45052 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$4,859$46,83136 claims
PfizerEliquis$383$30,88936 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$479$30,68829 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$772$24,53220 claims
AbbVieLinzess$637$24,36339 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$11,282$7,40811 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 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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