Craig Kovitz, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1114086063
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,200 of the $4,986 with a category attached, or 84.2%. Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC accounts for 90.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,478 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $176 in 2025.
Across 18 payments — averaging $276.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$5K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$247
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$37
- Merck$30
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$23
- AstraZeneca$23
- plus $119 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,20084%
- Food & beverage$4619%
- Education$3257%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $4,507 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $247 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $37 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $22 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
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.
- PROVENGE$4,507
How this compares
$4,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate | 72 | $1,685,517 |
| LenvimaLenvatinib Mesylate | 15 | $350,289 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 22 | $325,712 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 21 | $18,550 |
| EliquisApixaban | 14 | $7,639 |
| Bicalutamide | 24 | $230 |
| Prednisone | 48 | $219 |
| Dexamethasone | 36 | $217 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $131 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $131 |
| Prochlorperazine Maleate | 11 | $128 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $247 | $325,71222 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
Other hematology & oncology in Houston
- Devesh PandyaHouston$1.8M
- Elias JabbourHouston$1.3M
- Naval DaverHouston$853K
- Jorge Cortes-FrancoHouston$627K
- Courtney DinardoHouston$478K
- Prithviraj BoseHouston$463K
- Milind JavleHouston$326K
- Loretta NastoupilHouston$309K
- Boyu HuHouston$281K
- Luis CamachoHouston$276K
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.