RxDoctor Payments Data

Ulupi Choksi, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Shenandoah, TXNPI 1891851531

Payments from drug & device makers

$778in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $26.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$196
  • Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$109
  • Lilly USA, LLC$108
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$87
  • AbbVie$65
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$33
  • plus $181 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$778100%

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

$778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$57,735
Medicare patients
156
Services billed
557

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
OzempicSemaglutide101$126,039
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec38$52,501
MounjaroTirzepatide32$35,298
Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl31$33,169
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec34$22,046
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog20$21,114
TrulicityDulaglutide16$20,001
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$18,272
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog53$9,686
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$8,161
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro20$6,160
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart22$5,867
Humalog Kwikpen U-200Insulin Lispro11$5,494
Levothyroxine Sodium453$4,910
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium91$4,867

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$196$126,039101 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$108$55,29948 claims
Boehringer IngelheimSynjardy Xr, Jardiance$11$51,44043 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$65$4,86791 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 25th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.

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