Claudia Perez, MD
Neurocritical Care · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1811286420
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.6% of the total across 29 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. UCB, Inc. accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 29 payments — averaging $76.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- UCB, Inc.$1K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$131
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$126
- AbbVie$112
- Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$104
- Microtransponder, Inc.$94
- plus $281 from 8 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $20,251 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- GSK$505K
- Genentech, Inc.$63K
- Immedica Pharma US, Inc.$17K
- Eli Lilly$2K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$100%
- Food & beverage$2,220100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UCB, Inc. | 15 | $1,381 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $126 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $112 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $104 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG | 1 | $80 |
| Immedica Pharma US, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biogen | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$2,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 46 neurocritical care 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.
Other neurocritical care in Fort Worth
- Ishwara SankaraFort Worth$2K
- Zakraus MahdaviFort Worth$881
- Mohamed OsmanFort Worth$550
- Jay YaoFort Worth$60
- Ali SeifiSan Antonio$58K
- Ashutosh MahapatraHouston$27K
- Faheem SheriffEl Paso$12K
- Ritvij BowryHouston$11K
- Huimahn ChoiHouston$2K
- Muhammad Ubaid HafeezHouston$2K
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.