Patrick Pilie, MD
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1174818181
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 203 payments — averaging $29,592 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$3.2M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$2.7M
- Bayer$8K
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$5K
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$4K
- Pfizer$3K
- plus $7K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,23470%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,4508%
- Travel & lodging$2,4378%
- Food & beverage$4,08513%
- Education$650%
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 4 | $3,249,125 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 61 | $2,731,179 |
| Bayer | 13 | $8,129 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 32 | $5,033 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 7 | $3,931 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $3,162 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $2,736 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $2,522 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $667 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 39 | $490 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Pharmaand GmbH | 1 | $27 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $25 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $13 |
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
$6,007,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ErleadaApalutamide | 33 | $596,435 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 29 | $397,313 |
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 49 | $131,852 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 30 | $30,384 |
| Bicalutamide | 29 | $774 |
| Dutasteride | 22 | $524 |
| Prednisone | 34 | $195 |
| Dexamethasone | 13 | $152 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada | $2,522 | $596,43533 claims |
| BayerNubeqa | $8,129 | $397,31329 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Orgovyx | $33 | $131,85249 claims |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLCAbiraterone Acetate | $3,931 | $30,38430 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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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.