Rajavi Shah
Internal Medicine · Friendswood, TXNPI 1265727184
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 75 payments — averaging $22.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$531
- AbbVie$210
- Lilly USA, LLC$123
- Painteq LLC$115
- Amgen$114
- Pfizer$104
- plus $527 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,723100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 20 | $531 |
| AbbVie | 11 | $210 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $123 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Amgen | 6 | $114 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $104 |
| Bayer | 3 | $80 |
| Abbott | 3 | $66 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $63 |
| Merck | 3 | $49 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Novartis | 2 | $28 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| GSK | 1 | $24 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $22 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,723 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 26 | $673 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 57 | $600 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 38 | $540 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 56 | $468 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 50 | $454 |
| Losartan Potassium | 30 | $383 |
| Gabapentin | 35 | $269 |
| Famotidine | 12 | $258 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 11 | $249 |
| Lisinopril | 25 | $159 |
| Metformin Hcl | 28 | $158 |
| Omeprazole | 14 | $137 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 20 | $134 |
| Allopurinol | 12 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Friendswood
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Salma SaigerMesquite$16.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.