Ruby John, MD
Internal Medicine · The Woodlands, TXNPI 1629224118
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 78 payments — averaging $20.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$257
- AstraZeneca$198
- Abbott$162
- Baxter Healthcare$136
- Lilly USA, LLC$113
- Johnson & Johnson$112
- plus $638 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,48092%
- Other$1368%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $257 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $198 |
| Abbott | 7 | $162 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $136 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $113 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $112 |
| GSK | 4 | $95 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $87 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $58 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $49 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $39 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Amgen | 1 | $27 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $19 |
| BD | 1 | $19 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $10 |
How this compares
$1,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 54 | $64,756 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 52 | $64,544 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 30 | $35,172 |
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $19,026 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 11 | $14,024 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 55 | $1,188 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 125 | $1,128 |
| Losartan Potassium | 111 | $1,117 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 15 | $930 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 67 | $866 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 103 | $832 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 67 | $785 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 60 | $673 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $639 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 78 | $637 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $39 | $64,75654 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $257 | $64,54452 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $113 | $35,17230 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $49 | $19,02619 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $95 | $14,02411 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $14 | $51211 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 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in The Woodlands
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Salma SaigerMesquite$16.1M
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.