RxDoctor Payments Data

Ronald Buescher, MD

General Practice · Houston, TXNPI 1154356152

Payments from drug & device makers

$554in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $25.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$242
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$96
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$35
  • Antares Pharma, Inc.$32
  • Halozyme Inc$30
  • Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$25
  • plus $93 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$554100%

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.

How this compares

$554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 8,074 general practice providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$43,576
Medicare patients
80
Services billed
603

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
SerostimSomatropin12$253,322
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala28$127,214
OzempicSemaglutide46$47,903
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$38,280
MounjaroTirzepatide15$17,572
EliquisApixaban18$16,730
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin16$15,911
FetzimaLevomilnacipran Hcl21$12,719
TrulicityDulaglutide11$10,576
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen197$5,801
JentaduetoLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl12$5,298
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium44$4,502
Vilazodone Hcl20$2,341
Cefixime17$1,818
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine24$1,283

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
GileadBiktarvy$15$127,21428 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$19$47,90346 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$14$28,14826 claims
AbbVieFetzima, Synthroid$242$17,22265 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 70th percentile of 8,074 general practice providers in Texas.

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