RxDoctor Payments Data

Sinikka Green

Emergency Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1295789691

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.6% of the total across 17 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Merz North America, Inc. accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $334 and has fallen 50.9% since, to $164 in 2023. Among emergency medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$781in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $45.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merz North America, Inc.$754
  • AbbVie$27
$10,388,453in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 342 payments — averaging $30,376 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$3.3M
  • Eli Lilly$2.5M
  • Modernatx, Inc.$2.4M
  • Emergent Biosolutions Inc.$961K
  • Johnson & Johnson$630K
  • Valneva Austria GmbH$515K
  • plus $177K from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$71592%
  • Education$668%

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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23

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Merz North America, Inc.16$754
AbbVie1$27

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

$781 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,952 emergency medicine providers in Texas.

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