RxDoctor Payments Data

Shawn Burton, MD

Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1720023096

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,508in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 792 payments — averaging $19.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$3K
  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • Novo Nordisk$1K
  • Bayer$899
  • Lilly USA, LLC$686
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$669
  • plus $6K from 48 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8165%
  • Food & beverage$14,53594%
  • Education$1571%

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

$15,508 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$49,253
Medicare patients
112
Services billed
664

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
EpclusaSofosbuvir/Velpatasvir12$294,947
OzempicSemaglutide198$209,364
MounjaroTirzepatide169$190,051
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate16$137,457
EliquisApixaban125$114,520
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol88$110,623
JardianceEmpagliflozin61$91,408
LinzessLinaclotide103$91,047
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter124$82,702
KerendiaFinerenone37$39,149
RexultiBrexpiprazole25$35,990
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$35,776
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin29$30,772
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol47$30,012
TrulicityDulaglutide27$29,268

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
GileadEpclusa$579$294,94712 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity, Humulin 70-30$686$221,924222 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$1,059$209,364198 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Airsupra$3,149$146,330147 claims
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.Ingrezza$296$137,45716 claims
PfizerEliquis$582$114,520125 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Restasis$3,277$100,099117 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$48$91,40861 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$377$82,702124 claims
BayerKerendia$899$39,14937 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$388$35,99025 claims
MerckJanuvia$43$35,77622 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 95th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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