RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheng-Kun Yao, MD

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1952393506

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,582in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 113 payments — averaging $14.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$979
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$155
  • AstraZeneca$145
  • Merck$61
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$51
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$50
  • plus $140 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,582100%

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

$1,582 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$146,725
Medicare patients
488
Services billed
2,014

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol134$160,888
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl255$155,291
JardianceEmpagliflozin117$149,906
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide59$111,936
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate97$104,842
LinzessLinaclotide93$85,448
EliquisApixaban58$70,218
RybelsusSemaglutide18$36,673
TrulicityDulaglutide16$31,397
TradjentaLinagliptin17$26,424
OzempicSemaglutide14$23,791
MyrbetriqMirabegron29$18,079
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl12$14,934
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter20$14,621
Icosapent Ethyl28$13,613

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Trijardy Xr$30$184,919148 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$145$160,888134 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$61$119,776109 claims
GileadVemlidy$979$111,93659 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$11$96,023105 claims
PfizerEliquis, Prempro, Paxlovid$30$80,937148 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$25$31,39716 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 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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