David R Close, MD

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Covenant Medical Center Hospital · Lubbock, TX
• Covenant Childrens Hospital Hospital · Lubbock, TX
• Covenant Hospital Plainview Hospital · Plainview, TX
• Grace Surgical Hospital Hospital · Lubbock, TX

Colleagues at Covenant Medical Group

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 227 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Gabriel Axelrud, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Lubbock, TX
• Dr. Curtis Jay Carothers, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Lubbock, TX
• Dr. Dennis Efren Duriex, MD Infectious Disease Physician · Lubbock, TX
• Dr. Breton C Juberg, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Hobbs, NM
• Holly Briana Lewis, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Lubbock, TX
• James E. McDonald, MD Family Medicine Physician · Lubbock, TX
• Aksana Nelson, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Hobbs, NM
• Dr. Brian Emison Nicholson, MD Urology Physician · Lubbock, TX
• Hima Bindu Ravi, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Lubbock, TX
• Prakash Shrestha, MD Infectious Disease Physician · Lubbock, TX
• Shannon Turnbow, MD Pulmonary Disease Physician · Lubbock, TX
• Dr. Andrew Langston West, MD Family Medicine Physician · Wolfforth, TX

Other providers in Lubbock

• Rodolfo E. Martinez, MD

  Individual Medical Oncology Physician · NPI 1184642282

  4101 22nd Pl, Lubbock, TX 79410-1121 · (806) 725-8000

• Pulmonory Associates of Lubbock LLP

  Organization Medical Oncology Physician · NPI 1962404327

  3621 22nd St Ste 400, Lubbock, TX 79410-1301 · (806) 791-8484

• Ibrahim Adly Shalaby, MD

  Individual Medical Oncology Physician · NPI 1053374769

  4101 22nd Pl, Lubbock, TX 79410-1121 · (806) 725-8000

• Isaac Tafur, MD

  Individual Medical Oncology Physician · NPI 1679536387

  4101 22nd Pl, Lubbock, TX 79410 · (806) 725-8000