Boris Kaim
Neurology · El Paso, TXNPI 1326054164
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 310 payments — averaging $18.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- EMD Serono, Inc.$439
- AbbVie$393
- UCB, Inc.$352
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$343
- Novartis$326
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$319
- plus $4K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$391%
- Food & beverage$5,63097%
- Education$1252%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 30 | $439 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $393 |
| UCB, Inc. | 14 | $352 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 20 | $343 |
| Novartis | 22 | $326 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 15 | $319 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $307 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $296 |
| Sanofi | 15 | $277 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 14 | $268 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 12 | $256 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $208 |
| Biogen | 19 | $200 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 8 | $191 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 9 | $187 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $157 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 8 | $145 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $135 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 6 | $129 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $97 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 6 | $91 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $84 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $74 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $58 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $42 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $16 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $1 |
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.
- RYTARY$137
- NEUROSTAR TMS THERAPY$100
How this compares
$5,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.
Other neurology in El Paso
- Aamr HerekarEl Paso$1.4M
- Roberto QuintosEl Paso$633K
- Ann BassSan Antonio$12.3M
- Kandasami SenthilkumarBeaumont$7.6M
- Bharathy SundaramSherman$7.2M
- Bhupesh DiheniaLubbock$6.9M
- Jamshid LotfiHouston$6M
- Nazanin MajdHouston$5.9M
- Aziz ShaibaniHouston$5.5M
- Elizabeth PeckhamRound Rock$5.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.