RxDoctor Payments Data

Payman Sadeghi, MD

Neurology · Houston, TXNPI 1497895650

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,775in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 235 payments — averaging $20.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Pfizer$633
  • Lilly USA, LLC$624
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$407
  • Amgen$224
  • Impel Pharmaceuticals LLC$205
  • plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,775100%

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

$4,775 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$81,464
Medicare patients
89
Services billed
6,008

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
BotoxOnabotulinumtoxina11$13,839
Sumatriptan Succinate128$12,049
RizatriptanRizatriptan Benzoate52$949
Naratriptan Hcl20$623
Quetiapine Fumarate25$291
Phenobarbital16$275
Celecoxib14$220
Topiramate15$178
Pregabalin20$171
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen15$122
Tizanidine Hcl13$109
Methylprednisolone12$65
Diazepam16$60
Sertraline Hcl11$56
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl13$42

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
AbbVieBotox$1,655$13,83911 claims
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$36$17815 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 55th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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