RxDoctor Payments Data

Sandeep Agarwal

Rheumatology · Houston, TXNPI 1467489757

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,027in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $103.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$5K
  • AbbVie$663
  • Johnson & Johnson$99
  • Amgen$74
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$40
  • Pfizer$15
  • plus $25 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,37473%
  • Travel & lodging$63010%
  • Food & beverage$86514%
  • Education$1583%

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

$6,027 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$597,541
Medicare patients
187
Services billed
28,180

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
PrivigenImmun Glob G(Igg)/Pro/Iga 0-5013$273,714
RinvoqUpadacitinib22$184,298
OrenciaAbatacept19$132,709
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol11$114,764
Cosentyx (2 Syringes)Secukinumab13$96,509
Enbrel MiniEtanercept13$92,509
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab16$87,886
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept11$86,687
Humira PenAdalimumab13$78,381
OtezlaApremilast13$64,321
Leflunomide83$4,972
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate132$4,436
Mycophenolate Mofetil37$4,159
Cevimeline Hcl15$3,829
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium55$1,786

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
AbbVieRinvoq$663$184,29822 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia$40$132,70919 claims
AmgenOtezla$74$64,32113 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 50th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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