RxDoctor Payments Data

Suresh Rajendran, MD

Gastroenterology · Houston, TXNPI 1215920723

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,210in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $21.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$969
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$251
  • Gilead$242
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$153
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$124
  • Pfizer$83
  • plus $387 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,19499%
  • Education$161%

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

$2,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$239,395
Medicare patients
580
Services billed
4,238

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab19$126,645
LinzessLinaclotide60$53,844
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase11$49,809
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide23$34,999
Mesalamine ErMesalamine63$30,938
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates419$24,592
Mesalamine59$20,621
Colestipol Hcl96$8,154
Pantoprazole Sodium732$7,462
Ursodiol51$6,619
Entecavir30$5,162
Lansoprazole60$3,400
Sucralfate119$3,206
Famotidine268$2,992
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole11$2,988

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
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$969$103,65471 claims
GileadVemlidy$242$34,99923 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$27$2,51416 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 35th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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