RxDoctor Payments Data

Ruben Sunga, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Odessa, TXNPI 1972699627

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,510in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 256 payments — averaging $21.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$993
  • Novartis$759
  • Merck$718
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$533
  • Johnson & Johnson$374
  • Amgen$347
  • plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$87916%
  • Food & beverage$4,59683%
  • Education$361%

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

$5,510 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$241,999
Medicare patients
2,665
Services billed
6,292

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
EliquisApixaban578$614,763
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan181$173,710
XareltoRivaroxaban74$81,218
JardianceEmpagliflozin75$62,401
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol25$22,297
Atorvastatin Calcium914$18,701
Carvedilol557$10,977
Lisinopril654$7,830
Metoprolol Succinate607$6,301
Losartan Potassium499$6,281
Pantoprazole Sodium27$5,328
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate150$5,202
Amlodipine Besylate592$3,492
Metoprolol Tartrate382$3,460
Pravastatin Sodium194$2,945

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$267$614,763578 claims
NovartisEntresto$759$173,710181 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$374$81,21874 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$187$62,40175 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$59$22,29725 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 55th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

Other cardiovascular disease in Odessa

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