Anup Kudakkasseril
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1629280771
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 62 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 62 payments — averaging $22.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$314
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$227
- Pfizer$140
- Merck$82
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$72
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$71
- plus $471 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,377100%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 12 | $314 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $227 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $140 |
| Merck | 5 | $82 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $72 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 5 | $71 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $63 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $56 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $51 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $26 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Azstarys$122
How this compares
$1,377 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Pedro PiedraHouston$729K
- Vernon SuttonHouston$90K
- Carlos BacinoHouston$53K
- Farida AbidHouston$50K
- Lindsay CameronHouston$32K
- Juan Torres SanchezHouston$31K
- Martin YudovichHouston$24K
- Raegan HuntHouston$23K
- Michael PickettHouston$14K
- Lara LeonhardtHouston$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.