RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Hong, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Houston, TXNPI 1235121294

Payments from drug & device makers

$77,807in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,880 payments — averaging $41.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$59K
  • Angiodynamics, Inc.$7K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$6K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Biotronik Inc.$826
  • Medtronic$791
  • plus $2K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$21,35337%
  • Travel & lodging$7951%
  • Food & beverage$28,50349%
  • Education$1,5433%
  • Other$5,58310%

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

$77,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$490,444
Medicare patients
776
Services billed
5,314

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
EliquisApixaban295$261,529
MultaqDronedarone Hcl58$49,242
XareltoRivaroxaban41$46,226
Dofetilide38$7,979
Flecainide Acetate145$4,450
Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl27$3,846
Metoprolol Succinate183$3,475
SotalolSotalol Hcl84$2,775
Mexiletine Hcl16$2,510
Amiodarone Hcl107$1,997
Digoxin32$577
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate27$357
Metoprolol Tartrate47$343
Minocycline Hcl78$321
Atorvastatin Calcium17$183

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$260$261,529295 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$63$49,24258 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$117$46,22641 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 70th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.

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