RxDoctor Payments Data

Scotty Ortega, MD

Family Medicine · Odessa, TXNPI 1821253162

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,580in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 334 payments — averaging $19.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$790
  • Novo Nordisk$604
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$504
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$431
  • Lilly USA, LLC$341
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$256
  • plus $4K from 45 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,17194%
  • Education$4096%

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

$6,580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,994,651
Medicare patients
1,622
Services billed
25,457

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
EliquisApixaban1,757$566,949
OzempicSemaglutide305$314,856
JardianceEmpagliflozin434$205,167
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol327$145,212
LinzessLinaclotide198$117,748
GemtesaVibegron392$91,566
MyrbetriqMirabegron371$87,107
XareltoRivaroxaban191$68,722
TrulicityDulaglutide70$66,093
NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate25$65,811
RexultiBrexpiprazole65$59,737
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan154$58,037
Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate18$57,342
CopaxoneGlatiramer Acetate17$55,789
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter61$54,488

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$145$566,9491,757 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$604$314,856305 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$504$232,666488 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arexvy, Anoro Ellipta$97$174,789373 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$790$145,212327 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invega Sustenna$84$126,064209 claims
AbbVieLinzess$237$117,748198 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$341$117,257113 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Copaxone, Austedo$230$98,16229 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$70$91,566392 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$431$87,107371 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$160$59,73765 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 85th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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