Carl Heller, MD
Family Medicine · Kingwood, TXNPI 1942225347
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $18.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$365
- AbbVie$180
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$113
- Pfizer$99
- Boehringer Ingelheim$73
- Abiomed$73
- plus $609 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,514100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 23 | $365 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $180 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $113 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $99 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $73 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $73 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Abbott | 2 | $44 |
| Amgen | 2 | $42 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $35 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 8,760 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 13 | $12,561 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $806 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $331 |
| Losartan Potassium | 29 | $268 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 27 | $240 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 16 | $220 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 14 | $219 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $217 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $216 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 19 | $204 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 16 | $204 |
| Alprazolam | 11 | $141 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 21 | $105 |
| Glipizide ErGlipizide | 14 | $102 |
| Lorazepam | 11 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Kingwood
- Martin BasalduaKingwood$3.5M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
- Hareshkumar BogharaDesoto$30.3M
- Earl MartinTomball$30.1M
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
- William SegerFort Worth$27.5M
- Veronica FragosoHouston$24.5M
- Joel SolisMcAllen$21.1M
- George AtieeSan Antonio$19.9M
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.