Abdelnaser Elkhalili, MD
Rheumatology · Webster, TXNPI 1316935836
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,247 payments — averaging $163.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$155K
- Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.$18K
- GSK$9K
- Amgen$5K
- AbbVie$3K
- UCB, Inc.$2K
- plus $12K from 38 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $210.71 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$421
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$500%
- Food & beverage$22,11397%
- Education$5652%
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
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
$203,885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose | 172 | $812,574 |
| RinvoqUpadacitinib | 47 | $492,651 |
| Orencia ClickjectAbatacept | 61 | $345,575 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 28 | $221,960 |
| Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol | 22 | $189,376 |
| Enbrel MiniEtanercept | 20 | $185,299 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 99 | $172,202 |
| Simponi AriaGolimumab | 21 | $162,909 |
| SimponiGolimumab | 27 | $162,459 |
| Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate | 28 | $162,220 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 23 | $158,569 |
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 21 | $143,172 |
| Cosentyx (2 Syringes)Secukinumab | 15 | $114,098 |
| Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg | 44 | $108,926 |
| ActemraTocilizumab | 29 | $103,401 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia, Orencia | $975 | $878,639183 claims |
| AbbVieRinvoq | $3,354 | $492,65147 claims |
| AmgenProlia, Evenity (2 Syringes), Otezla | $4,952 | $337,171159 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonSimponi Aria, Simponi | $1,688 | $325,36848 claims |
| UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack) | $1,933 | $189,37622 claims |
| NovartisCosentyx (2 Syringes) | $968 | $114,09815 claims |
| Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos | $324 | $50,60617 claims |
| PfizerInflectra | $1,563 | $49,38811 claims |
| OrganonHadlima(Cf) | $77 | $11,22011 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 85th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.
Other rheumatology in Webster
- Paul PickrellAustin$40.9M
- Atul SinghalMesquite$13.9M
- Shaikh AliTomball$9.8M
- Jitendra VasandaniLubbock$6.4M
- Dhiman BasuColleyville$6.2M
- Tamar BrionezThe Woodlands$5.2M
- Philip WallerHouston$4.9M
- John CushDallas$3.9M
- Sabeen NajamBaytown$3.6M
- Sanjay ChabraEl Paso$3.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.