RxDoctor Payments Data

Sumer Al-Alusi, MD

Hospitalist · Amarillo, TXNPI 1376986190

Payments from drug & device makers

$631in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $18.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$159
  • Pfizer$109
  • AstraZeneca$75
  • Boston Scientific$53
  • AbbVie$51
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$46
  • plus $139 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$631100%

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

$631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,284 hospitalist providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$231,009
Medicare patients
423
Services billed
2,685

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
EliquisApixaban20$11,725
Midodrine Hcl11$583
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil20$239
Pantoprazole Sodium40$214
Potassium Chloride24$207
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav22$148
Atorvastatin Calcium27$144
Levetiracetam11$138
Amlodipine Besylate23$135
Metoprolol Succinate18$124
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate25$124
Carvedilol24$115
Methylprednisolone15$109
Furosemide38$105
Famotidine13$98

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$109$11,72520 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 1,284 hospitalist providers in Texas.

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