RxDoctor Payments Data

Vince Cataldo, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1659393395

Payments from drug & device makers

$342,412in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 291 payments — averaging $1176.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$337K
  • AstraZeneca$504
  • Pfizer$366
  • Merck$343
  • Sanofi$285
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$265
  • plus $3K from 48 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,614100%
  • Education$210%

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

$342,412 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$103,107
Medicare patients
423
Services billed
2,203

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
CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate23$341,846
AlecensaAlectinib Hcl12$222,377
TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate13$213,396
EliquisApixaban85$55,048
XareltoRivaroxaban72$52,300
XtandiEnzalutamide11$38,547
Abiraterone Acetate15$33,515
Anastrozole86$1,732
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate31$1,457
Exemestane13$1,039
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen39$583
Potassium Chloride21$464
Warfarin Sodium86$459
Acyclovir26$434
Levothyroxine Sodium38$398

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
AstraZenecaCalquence, Tagrisso$504$555,24236 claims
Genentech USA, Inc.Alecensa$204$222,37712 claims
PfizerEliquis$366$55,04885 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$160$52,30072 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi$25$38,54711 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 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.

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