RxDoctor Payments Data

Su Min Chang, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1164499240

Payments from drug & device makers

$392,362in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 139 payments — averaging $2822.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$384K
  • Heartflow, Inc.$3K
  • Medtronic$803
  • Philips North America LLC$754
  • Edwards Lifesciences$736
  • Abbott$666
  • plus $3K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2462%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1662%
  • Travel & lodging$3,29530%
  • Food & beverage$7,26266%

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

$392,362 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$146,212
Medicare patients
3,009
Services billed
5,263

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
EliquisApixaban45$67,341
Atorvastatin Calcium151$1,971
Rosuvastatin Calcium90$1,888
Ezetimibe35$1,169
Amlodipine Besylate125$1,087
Lisinopril65$1,022
Losartan Potassium77$952
Atenolol23$678
Metoprolol Succinate31$589
Valsartan15$570
Hydralazine Hcl36$429
Nifedipine ErNifedipine21$426
Carvedilol54$399
Chlorthalidone16$232
Spironolactone25$203

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
PfizerEliquis$133$67,34145 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 95th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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