RxDoctor Payments Data

Richard Fish, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1487608352

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,580in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 438 payments — averaging $19.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$925
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$698
  • Novo Nordisk$689
  • Amgen$558
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$421
  • plus $4K from 39 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,566100%
  • Education$140%

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

$8,580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$73,552
Medicare patients
219
Services billed
753

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
EliquisApixaban124$152,199
JardianceEmpagliflozin102$144,001
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab105$109,080
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol59$70,302
XareltoRivaroxaban41$54,512
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan25$47,668
Praluent PenAlirocumab50$47,306
OzempicSemaglutide31$39,650
MounjaroTirzepatide15$15,861
Metoprolol Succinate299$7,306
Rosuvastatin Calcium283$5,238
Atorvastatin Calcium290$4,492
Losartan Potassium211$3,032
Ezetimibe78$2,799
Ranolazine ErRanolazine24$2,691

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
PfizerEliquis$379$152,199124 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$112$144,001102 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$106$70,30259 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$925$54,51241 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,184$47,66825 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$689$39,65031 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 40th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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