RxDoctor Payments Data

Ojas Naik, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1710125604

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,836in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 116 payments — averaging $24.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$550
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$401
  • Amgen$315
  • Novartis$286
  • Novo Nordisk$175
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$168
  • plus $941 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,54690%
  • Education$29010%

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.

How this compares

$2,836 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$290,465
Medicare patients
521
Services billed
2,611

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
KerendiaFinerenone102$119,008
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol63$68,986
JardianceEmpagliflozin40$48,170
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate23$28,206
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan19$22,251
Bumetanide86$6,287
Calcitriol137$4,630
Torsemide167$4,226
Cinacalcet Hcl11$3,231
Nifedipine ErNifedipine106$3,084
Furosemide256$2,179
Allopurinol105$1,945
Losartan Potassium136$1,653
Olmesartan Medoxomil77$1,647
Valsartan59$1,566

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
BayerKerendia$153$119,008102 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$550$97,19286 claims
NovartisEntresto$286$22,25119 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$49$1,56659 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 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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