RxDoctor Payments Data

Shridhar Kotta, MD

Internal Medicine · Harlingen, TXNPI 1780674432

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,282in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 551 payments — averaging $15.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$995
  • AstraZeneca$862
  • Novo Nordisk$716
  • Pfizer$591
  • Lilly USA, LLC$556
  • AbbVie$432
  • plus $4K from 46 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,12898%
  • Education$1542%

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

$8,282 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$491,690
Medicare patients
526
Services billed
10,828

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
OzempicSemaglutide406$598,703
MounjaroTirzepatide193$277,409
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol239$240,368
JardianceEmpagliflozin187$212,141
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter173$162,442
RybelsusSemaglutide104$160,928
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate155$155,607
EliquisApixaban202$138,649
TrulicityDulaglutide91$136,846
LinzessLinaclotide152$117,264
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec95$104,662
XareltoRivaroxaban113$98,507
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate40$65,040
ProliaDenosumab37$62,124
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide65$58,068

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, Rybelsus$716$759,631510 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$556$414,255284 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$862$254,722276 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy Xr$129$245,057221 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Lagevrio (Eua), Janumet Xr$271$243,754278 claims
PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt$591$203,689242 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Creon$432$180,399193 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$995$177,553200 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$68$98,507113 claims
AmgenProlia$186$62,12437 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$201$58,06865 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$275$57,91893 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 90th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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