RxDoctor Payments Data

Shahnaz Karim, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Houston, TXNPI 1336135334

Payments from drug & device makers

$808in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $17.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$380
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$182
  • Johnson & Johnson$130
  • Pfizer$34
  • Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$28
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$21
  • plus $32 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$808100%

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

$808 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 651 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$121,891
Medicare patients
94
Services billed
1,670

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
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl417$68,040
SuboxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl82$55,522
OzempicSemaglutide36$43,835
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen245$6,785
Pregabalin206$5,570
Lidocaine39$4,912
ZtlidoLidocaine11$3,857
Tizanidine Hcl270$2,958
Gabapentin153$1,753
Diclofenac Sodium42$1,749
Modafinil24$1,679
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen63$1,459
Celecoxib65$1,295
Morphine Sulfate36$903
Duloxetine Hcl103$850

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
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido$182$3,85711 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 70th percentile of 651 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Texas.

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