RxDoctor Payments Data

Shehnaz Aysha Sarmast, MD

Dermatology · Denison, TXNPI 1679739346

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,532in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $20.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$656
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$259
  • Novartis$230
  • Amgen$202
  • Lilly USA, LLC$196
  • Johnson & Johnson$167
  • plus $821 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,532100%

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

$2,532 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,098 dermatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$170,830
Medicare patients
520
Services billed
2,937

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
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab30$266,571
OtezlaApremilast12$58,789
Fluorouracil65$4,336
Metronidazole29$1,893
Clobetasol Propionate49$1,874
Fluocinonide34$1,681
Ketoconazole98$1,505
Triamcinolone Acetonide79$731
Clindamycin Phosphate12$433
Doxycycline Hyclate26$319
Metoprolol Succinate12$158
Hydrocortisone30$138

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
AmgenOtezla$202$58,78912 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 40th percentile of 1,098 dermatology providers in Texas.

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