Cartessa Knatt
Adult Health · Houston, TXNPI 1417222118
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $21.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$246
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$198
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$195
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$187
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$186
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$124
- plus $747 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,78495%
- Education$995%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 14 | $246 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $198 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 11 | $195 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 15 | $187 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $186 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $122 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| Amgen | 1 | $106 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $51 |
| GSK | 1 | $39 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $24 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
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.
- KRYSTEXXA$106
How this compares
$1,883 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 933 adult health providers in Texas.
Other adult health in Houston
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- Michelle MartinHouston$15K
- Loren SemonesHouston$14K
- Anthony SantosHouston$13K
- Dashawn ThomasHouston$11K
- Zandra RiveraHouston$11K
- Brandy KhodrHouston$10K
- Janice TranHouston$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.