Filip Janku
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1740584507
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,813 of the $10,333 with a category attached, or 75.6%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 43.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,395 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $125 in 2021. Among internal medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 9 payments — averaging $1148.06 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$5K
- Novartis$3K
- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$500
- Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC$125
- Bausch Health US, LLC$42
Across 1,648 payments — averaging $6192.77 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.
- Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.$3.6M
- Novartis$1.9M
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1.3M
- Merck$1.1M
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.$693K
- Synthorx Inc.$606K
- plus $984K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,81376%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,62516%
- Travel & lodging$8538%
- Food & beverage$420%
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 | 1 | $4,500 |
| Novartis | 1 | $2,813 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $2,353 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $42 |
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
$10,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Houston
- Hussein TawbiHouston$365K
- Hans LeeHouston$327K
- Tapan KadiaHouston$311K
- Nitin JainHouston$281K
- Krina PatelHouston$255K
- Nicholas ShortHouston$247K
- Naveen PemmarajuHouston$230K
- Mariana Chavez MacgregorHouston$188K
- Shumei KatoHouston$180K
- Sukhdeep BasraHouston$168K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.