RxDoctor Payments Data

William Zoghbi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1487684783

Payments from drug & device makers

$14,246in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $161.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$12K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Amgen$128
  • Livanova USA, Inc.$119
  • GE HealthCare$106
  • Novartis$99
  • plus $722 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9757%
  • Travel & lodging$10,81376%
  • Food & beverage$2,43917%
  • Education$190%

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

$14,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$97,234
Medicare patients
842
Services billed
1,738

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
EliquisApixaban78$105,982
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan33$51,056
XareltoRivaroxaban28$33,969
Metoprolol Succinate120$2,199
Ezetimibe65$2,084
Atorvastatin Calcium198$2,057
Rosuvastatin Calcium95$1,989
Nifedipine ErNifedipine43$1,725
Losartan Potassium74$863
Amlodipine Besylate110$812
Carvedilol64$749
Lisinopril77$684
FenofibrateFenofibrate Nanocrystallized11$657
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate24$512
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate18$424

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$94$105,98278 claims
NovartisEntresto$99$51,05633 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$58$33,96928 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 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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