RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Alukal

Internal Medicine · Irving, TXNPI 1396191409

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,470in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 629 payments — averaging $16.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$1K
  • GSK$999
  • AstraZeneca$986
  • Pfizer$673
  • plus $4K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$10,470100%

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

$10,470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$94,046
Medicare patients
246
Services billed
1,308

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin58$74,627
OzempicSemaglutide60$62,873
EliquisApixaban55$61,188
TrulicityDulaglutide26$32,163
RybelsusSemaglutide18$31,645
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol20$25,704
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$24,874
MounjaroTirzepatide12$23,001
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$14,211
Novolog Mix 70-30 FlexpenInsulin Aspart Prot/Insuln Asp11$5,429
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate18$5,027
Atorvastatin Calcium463$4,309
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog29$3,827
Levothyroxine Sodium270$2,888
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate80$2,092

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$1,100$94,51878 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$656$74,62758 claims
PfizerEliquis$673$61,18855 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$1,036$55,16438 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$986$30,73138 claims
MerckJanuvia$431$24,87415 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$999$14,21112 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,222$1,75738 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 90th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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