Thomas Ledbetter
Internal Medicine · Waxahachie, TXNPI 1760426092
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 183 payments — averaging $4924.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$613K
- GSK$97K
- Eli Lilly$84K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$33K
- Gilead$27K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$19K
- plus $28K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$135100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 126 | $612,742 |
| GSK | 9 | $97,023 |
| Eli Lilly | 6 | $83,997 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 23 | $32,571 |
| Gilead | 5 | $27,092 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 1 | $19,365 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 6 | $13,637 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $11,171 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $3,542 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $26 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
How this compares
$901,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 15 | $14,403 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 11 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Waxahachie
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Salma SaigerMesquite$16.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.