Cara Goodell
Family Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1235498171
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 161 payments — averaging $12.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$445
- AbbVie$364
- AstraZeneca$218
- Lilly USA, LLC$184
- Boehringer Ingelheim$151
- GSK$148
- plus $490 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,001100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 55 | $445 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $364 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $218 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $184 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $151 |
| GSK | 14 | $148 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $104 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $64 |
| Amgen | 3 | $47 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $35 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $12 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$2,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 12 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Austin
- Cynthia BrinsonAustin$13.9M
- Gregg LucksingerAustin$11.4M
- Faith HolmesAustin$7.5M
- Gretchen CrookAustin$4.4M
- Matthew BrimberryAustin$3.8M
- Nomita KimAustin$3.3M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
- Hareshkumar BogharaDesoto$30.3M
- Earl MartinTomball$30.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.