RxDoctor Payments Data

Raziuddin Ahmed, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1952562407

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,186in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 407 payments — averaging $20.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$1K
  • AstraZeneca$955
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$632
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$596
  • Harmony Biosciences LLC$552
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$467
  • plus $4K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,00998%
  • Education$1772%

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

$8,186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$556,163
Medicare patients
823
Services billed
6,444

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter247$182,207
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol57$40,346
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide51$32,625
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol40$19,364
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl34$16,026
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr23$10,255
EliquisApixaban16$9,434
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate26$6,807
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate211$6,336
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide12$3,834
Roflumilast23$2,297
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol15$2,292
Ipratropium Bromide86$2,045
Fluticasone Propionate154$1,968
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate30$1,661

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$1,155$215,661322 claims
Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat$387$48,65285 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$955$47,15383 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 65th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.

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