George Taffet, MD
Geriatric Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1740360080
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,400 of the $8,746 with a category attached, or 61.7%. Eli Lilly accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,619 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $27 in 2025. Among geriatric 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 16 payments — averaging $546.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$5K
- Novartis$2K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- Merck$68
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$44
- AstraZeneca$33
- plus $38 from 2 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $50.00 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.
- Eli Lilly$50
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,40062%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,96022%
- Travel & lodging$1,16413%
- Food & beverage$2223%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 1 | $5,400 |
| Novartis | 2 | $1,960 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $1,202 |
| Merck | 5 | $68 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $33 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $27 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
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.
- JARDIANCE$1,164
How this compares
$8,746 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 275 geriatric medicine 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 geriatric medicine in Houston
- Adeeba AkhtarHouston$6K
- Anil ThakerHouston$4K
- Kathryn AgarwalHouston$4K
- Aimee GarciaHouston$3K
- Radhika HariharanHouston$3K
- Jerome WassersteinHouston$3K
- Sistla KrishnaHouston$2K
- Teresa AlbrightHouston$2K
- Rechelle AsirotHouston$1K
- Elenita RosadoHouston$1K
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.