RxDoctor Payments Data

Shanti Neerukonda, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Odessa, TXNPI 1740219807

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,312in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $28.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2K
  • AstraZeneca$866
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$501
  • Merck$372
  • Pfizer$271
  • Amgen$201
  • plus $876 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,16897%
  • Education$1443%

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

$5,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$183,135
Medicare patients
425
Services billed
1,433

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
EliquisApixaban153$149,415
XareltoRivaroxaban98$74,910
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol47$36,360
MultaqDronedarone Hcl22$30,608
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan27$28,869
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$24,115
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab26$21,389
BrilintaTicagrelor14$9,373
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate30$8,207
Nebivolol Hcl134$7,505
Rosuvastatin Calcium352$3,880
Amiodarone Hcl243$3,666
Flecainide Acetate61$2,992
Losartan Potassium280$2,864
Torsemide194$2,758

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$271$149,415153 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$19$74,91098 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$866$45,73361 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$124$30,60822 claims
NovartisEntresto$116$28,86927 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$501$24,11519 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 25th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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