Richard Fetchick is an Infectious Disease physician affiliated with Houston Methodist. OpenAlex indexes 12 publications with 675 citations (h-index 9).
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
422 Hampton Way
Shavano Park, TX 782492070
Telephone
210-410-2497Provider last certified this registry record 24 Mar 2025.
Industry payments
8 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- ViiV Healthcare CompanyProgram year20249 payments
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.Program year20247 payments
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCProgram year20241 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Anti-infectives
100%Human Immunodeficiency Virus Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor43%Triumeq87%Descovy13%Part D<11 patientsFirst-generation cephalosporins11.5%Cephalexin100%Part D<11 patients+ 6 more classes in this area
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- The impact of rapid diagnostic testing, surveillance software, and clinical pharmacist staffing at a large community hospital in the management of Gram-negative bloodstream infections
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
2020 - Histoplasmosis in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): treatment with itraconazole and fluconazole.
PubMed
1993 - Bipolaris hawaiiensis—caused Phaeohyphomycotic Orbitopathy. A Devastating Fungal Sinusitis in an Apparently Immunocompetent Host
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
1990
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