Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Spencer Su

Hospitalist Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1851414684 CMS profile 174360

6560 Fannin St, Suite 2206, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$8,766

409 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Spencer Su of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,766 across 409 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Hospitalist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,846 76
2024 General $1,375 66
2023 General $1,308 59
2022 General $1,421 65
2021 General $1,167 59
2020 General $649 33
2019 General $1,000 51

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Spencer Su
  • Hospitalist median
  • Middle half of Hospitalist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Spencer Su were reported at $1,846. Among 6,882 Hospitalist profiles paid that year, the median was $86 and the middle half received between $30 and $191.

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Year Spencer Su Hospitalist median Middle half National median
2019 $1,000 $96 $28–$201 $163
2020 $649 $48 $19–$125 $114
2021 $1,167 $70 $23–$167 $132
2022 $1,421 $85 $27–$174 $149
2023 $1,308 $89 $30–$191 $160
2024 $1,375 $95 $29–$204 $164
2025 $1,846 $86 $30–$191 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $1,175 57 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $954 44 payments
  3. Relypsa, Inc. $747 44 payments
  4. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $629 48 payments
  5. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $625 34 payments
  6. Horizon Therapeutics plc $584 33 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $540 21 payments
  8. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $441 20 payments
  9. Abbott Laboratories $397 3 payments
  10. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $253 2 payments
  11. Other $2,422 103 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,707 401 payments
  2. Education $58 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JYNARQUE $1,014 48 payments
  2. FARXIGA $642 28 payments
  3. Kerendia $625 34 payments
  4. KRYSTEXXA $584 33 payments
  5. RAYALDEE $559 44 payments
  6. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $379 23 payments
  7. ACTHAR $372 18 payments
  8. LOKELMA $348 16 payments
  9. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $312 17 payments
  10. XARELTO $253 2 payments
  11. Other $3,352 129 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 26 drugs

Part D claims

645

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$85,994

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

30.9%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Rayaldee Calcifediol Brand 24 $37,241
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 31 $31,902
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 14 $8,451
Demeclocycline Hcl Generic 12 $1,785
Nifedipine Er Nifedipine Brand 47 $1,176
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 45 $866
Magnesium Sulfate Generic 26 $645
Tamsulosin Hcl Generic 41 $612
Valsartan Generic 14 $414
Potassium Chloride Generic 12 $362

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 26 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 15 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$108,211

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

362

Average age 74

Services billed

1,086

196 women, 166 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Chronic kidney disease 60%
Arthritis 59%
Ischemic heart disease 52%
Diabetes 49%
Heart failure 49%
Atrial fibrillation 38%
Depression 33%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 13 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $233
$233 — —
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $203
$203 — —
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $166
$166 31 —
RAYALDEE
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $141
$141 24 —
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $91
$91 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

409 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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