RxDoctor Payments Data

Shikha Bharaktiya, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Houston, TXNPI 1467460139

Payments from drug & device makers

$70,476in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 651 payments — averaging $108.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$48K
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$4K
  • Zealand Pharma US, Inc.$4K
  • Corcept Therapeutics$2K
  • Cequr Corporation$2K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$1K
  • plus $9K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,3832%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$50,13571%
  • Travel & lodging$4,2476%
  • Food & beverage$14,60921%
  • Education$440%
  • Gifts$590%

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

$70,476 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$80,582
Medicare patients
206
Services billed
769

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
OzempicSemaglutide216$327,493
TrulicityDulaglutide114$233,280
JardianceEmpagliflozin66$91,016
TymlosAbaloparatide12$61,406
TradjentaLinagliptin48$56,700
MounjaroTirzepatide26$37,320
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl24$32,760
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec35$31,498
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/723$28,193
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec45$20,727
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl13$19,494
JentaduetoLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl12$17,141
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart42$13,783
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate11$12,237
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl14$11,827

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Novolog$48,299$335,209241 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro, Humalog$1,062$281,224162 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy Xr, Jentadueto, Synjardy$204$196,179153 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$368$61,40612 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia$65$44,99735 claims
AbbVieSynthroid, Armour Thyroid$452$10,221110 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium, Unithroid$605$5,910423 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 80th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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