Joel Freitag
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.2% of the total across 877 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 49 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 877 payments — averaging $14.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$1K
- Biogen$1K
- EMD Serono, Inc.$964
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$826
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$796
- plus $6K from 43 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$791%
- Food & beverage$12,45598%
- Education$1441%
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.
How this compares
$12,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.
Other neurology in Waco
- Ann BassSan Antonio$1.7M
- William OndoHouston$1.4M
- Nirav PavasiaDallas$1.4M
- Mirla AvilaLubbock$1.3M
- Michael SoileauGeorgetown$1.2M
- Pankaj SatijaHouston$1.1M
- Annette HowardHouston$826K
- Benjamin GreenbergDallas$773K
- Annette OkaiPlano$730K
- Waleed El-FekyDallas$587K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.