James Strauss
Medical Oncology · Dallas, TXNPI 1770525933
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,283 payments — averaging $7084.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$3.2M
- Pfizer$1.2M
- Alkermes, Inc.$1M
- GSK$922K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$665K
- Epizyme, Inc.$438K
- plus $1.6M from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$23100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 195 | $3,212,233 |
| Pfizer | 44 | $1,185,249 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 189 | $1,029,204 |
| GSK | 205 | $922,411 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 159 | $664,667 |
| Epizyme, Inc. | 97 | $437,832 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 107 | $381,053 |
| Gilead | 65 | $279,517 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 77 | $210,253 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 99 | $195,554 |
| Novartis | 6 | $150,754 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $113,187 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 6 | $107,000 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 14 | $92,842 |
| Bayer | 9 | $69,247 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $24,600 |
| Macrogenics, Inc. | 4 | $13,627 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$9,089,260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 495 medical oncology providers in Texas.
Other medical oncology in Dallas
- Sawsan RashdanDallas$29.9M
- David GerberDallas$22.8M
- Joyce O'ShaughnessyDallas$20.8M
- Moshe LevyDallas$19.7M
- Minal BarveDallas$16.7M
- Andrew PaulsonDallas$11.5M
- Hans HammersDallas$11.4M
- Larry AndersonDallas$8.7M
- Heather McArthurDallas$7.6M
- Kristi McIntyreDallas$6.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.