John Caras
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Wichita Falls, TXNPI 1639157837
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $41.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corcept Therapeutics$3K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$396
- Medtronic$217
- Abbott$142
- IBSA Pharma Inc.$66
- plus $302 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,25041%
- Travel & lodging$4448%
- Food & beverage$2,73650%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corcept Therapeutics | 9 | $3,128 |
| Novo Nordisk | 66 | $1,179 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 20 | $396 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $217 |
| Abbott | 8 | $142 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $55 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $41 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Amgen | 2 | $23 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Korlym$3,056
How this compares
$5,430 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.
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Other endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism in Wichita Falls
- Julio RosenstockDallas$24.9M
- Michelle WelchShavano Park$17.3M
- Maria CabanillasHouston$16.4M
- Sumana GangiMesquite$13.2M
- Damaris VegaHouston$12.3M
- Mark KipnesSan Antonio$10.3M
- Amer Al KaradshehHouston$8.8M
- Ildiko LingvayDallas$8.2M
- Eduardo LunaEdinburg$7.6M
- Thomas BlevinsAustin$7.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.