RxDoctor Payments Data

Russell Vanbiber, MD

Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1518983303

Payments from drug & device makers

$834in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $18.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$264
  • Lilly USA, LLC$196
  • Gilead$93
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$54
  • AstraZeneca$54
  • Abbott$47
  • plus $126 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$82299%
  • Education$121%

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

$834 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$33,157
Medicare patients
102
Services billed
334

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
OzempicSemaglutide28$33,210
RybelsusSemaglutide16$23,708
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$11,987
EliquisApixaban19$10,651
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide14$6,742
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec16$4,466
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil11$3,054
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen135$2,921
Pregabalin28$1,647
Gabapentin77$1,234
Levothyroxine Sodium88$1,113
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate45$1,009
Testosterone Cypionate24$985
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine20$915
Metoprolol Succinate47$816

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$264$56,91844 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$54$11,98712 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$54$6,74214 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 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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