RxDoctor Payments Data

Richard Bell, MD

Internal Medicine · Richardson, TXNPI 1730241480

Payments from drug & device makers

$14,802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 767 payments — averaging $19.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • EMD Serono, Inc.$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • AstraZeneca$830
  • Biogen$786
  • Grifols USA, LLC$598
  • UCB, Inc.$554
  • plus $9K from 54 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$450%
  • Food & beverage$14,757100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
EMD Serono, Inc.72$2,081
AbbVie(2 entities)64$1,044
AstraZeneca(2 entities)47$830
Biogen41$786
Grifols USA, LLC29$598
UCB, Inc.25$554
Sanofi34$554
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.30$507
Amgen18$475
Bristol Myers Squibb27$461
Novartis24$383
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc22$381
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.13$357
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.34$353
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.22$350
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC17$324
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.18$304
Argenx US, Inc.10$295
Pfizer17$293
Lilly USA, LLC18$266
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.12$249
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.14$247
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.10$213
Eisai Inc.9$197
Abbott9$169
SK Life Science, Inc.9$168
Novo Nordisk9$163
MDD US Operations, LLC9$142
Banner Life Sciences, LLC6$135
GSK8$128
Lundbeck LLC6$123
Penumbra, Inc.1$119
Avion Pharmaceuticals7$118
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.5$106
Boston Scientific4$99
Boehringer Ingelheim5$92
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.4$90
Genentech USA, Inc.3$89
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$79
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)4$78
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.6$76
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc3$67
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.3$61
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.3$60
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.3$55
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.4$54
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.3$53
CSL Behring2$44
Neurelis, Inc.2$42
GE HealthCare2$38
Exact Sciences2$35
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.1$32
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.2$24
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$21
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.1$20
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC1$20
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.1$19
Bausch Health US, LLC1$15
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.1$15
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC1$14

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

$14,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$66,293
Medicare patients
86
Services billed
1,003

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin60$75,141
TrulicityDulaglutide15$37,659
MounjaroTirzepatide18$31,023
EliquisApixaban19$29,238
OzempicSemaglutide18$29,004
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter11$12,359
Ezetimibe118$2,646
Rosuvastatin Calcium236$2,206
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate25$2,003
Olmesartan Medoxomil126$1,761
Levothyroxine Sodium145$1,755
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium28$1,482
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir12$1,429
Gabapentin79$1,366
Montelukast Sodium110$1,359

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$92$75,14160 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$266$68,68233 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$293$30,66731 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$163$29,00418 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$128$12,35911 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$324$1,755145 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,044$1,48228 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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