Gary Tunell
Neurology · Dallas, TXNPI 1528033453
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 180 payments — averaging $1182.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eisai Inc.$114K
- Genentech, Inc.$84K
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$12K
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$489
- Novartis$285
- Sanofi$196
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1295%
- Food & beverage$2,58695%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $113,898 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 3 | $83,827 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $12,444 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 36 | $489 |
| Novartis | 17 | $285 |
| Sanofi | 10 | $196 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $168 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 7 | $150 |
| UCB, Inc. | 9 | $149 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 7 | $131 |
| Biogen | 10 | $125 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 13 | $122 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $97 |
| Amgen | 4 | $88 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $65 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 4 | $59 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $58 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $51 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $15 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Neurology Practice Consortium GPO, LLC | 1 | $0 |
How this compares
$212,828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.
Other neurology in Dallas
- Susan IannacconeDallas$5.1M
- Benjamin GreenbergDallas$4.6M
- Duc TranDallas$4.5M
- Adnan SubeiDallas$3.1M
- Gincy SamuelDallas$2.4M
- Olaf StuveDallas$2.4M
- Nirav PavasiaDallas$2M
- Waleed El-FekyDallas$1.8M
- Steven VerninoDallas$1.6M
- Steven HerzogDallas$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.