Richard Houston, DO
Hospitalist · Lakewood Ranch, FLNPI 1407207004
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 7 payments — averaging $49.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$324
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$23
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$347100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $324 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $23 |
How this compares
$347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,570 hospitalist providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $8,906 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 23 | $175 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 15 | $159 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 14 | $147 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $100 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $90 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $61 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 18 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Lakewood Ranch
- Kinga PorterLakewood Ranch$4K
- Sandi ColemanMiami$2.6M
- Miguel Mujica BaellaMiami$1.8M
- Fernando PedrazaMiami$1.8M
- Jose PineroMiami$1.1M
- Jose NegrinHomestead$674K
- Fernando Piedra ChavezMiami$554K
- Felipe Gascon-RodonPembroke Pines$441K
- Santos Reyes AlonsoMiami$429K
- Murray EpsteinMiami$370K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.