RxDoctor Payments Data

Zuhair Ali, MD

Family Medicine · Sugar Land, TXNPI 1710477039

Payments from drug & device makers

$351in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $21.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Renalytix AI, Inc.$78
  • Lilly USA, LLC$61
  • Novo Nordisk$49
  • Amgen$38
  • AbbVie$36
  • Pfizer$24
  • plus $66 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$351100%

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

23
24

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.

How this compares

$351 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,812
Medicare patients
218
Services billed
1,350

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
OzempicSemaglutide47$72,876
EliquisApixaban43$38,942
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$30,797
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl27$26,548
Clobetasol Propionate14$1,959
Rosuvastatin Calcium120$1,404
Levothyroxine Sodium131$1,395
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir13$1,367
Atorvastatin Calcium135$1,215
Valsartan35$1,054
Fluticasone Propionate101$1,021
Esomeprazole Magnesium13$887
Lisinopril91$693
Losartan Potassium89$691
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium18$660

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$49$72,87647 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$24$40,31056 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$36$66018 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 45th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.

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