Carolyn Charles
Interventional Pain Medicine · Pearland, TXNPI 1124678511
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 61 payments — averaging $21.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$190
- AbbVie$160
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$117
- Vertex$100
- Merck$79
- Valinor Pharma, LLC$63
- plus $582 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,290100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $190 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $160 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Vertex | 3 | $100 |
| Merck | 4 | $79 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $40 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $39 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other interventional pain medicine in Pearland
- Jay LafleurPearland$147K
- David NguyenPearland$129K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
- Duane GriffithTyler$730K
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
- Robert WillsRound Rock$692K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.