Jorge Kutugata, MD
Pediatrics · Weslaco, TXNPI 1285748996
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 24 payments — averaging $27.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Phadia US Inc.$355
- Abbott$99
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$45
- GSK$36
- Merck$33
- Alk-abello, Inc$26
- plus $55 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$649100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Phadia US Inc. | 13 | $355 |
| Abbott | 1 | $99 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| GSK | 2 | $36 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $24 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 33 | $148 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 17 | $145 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 22 | $135 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 11 | $122 |
| Losartan Potassium | 19 | $103 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $100 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $90 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $71 |
| Metformin Hcl | 15 | $59 |
| Alprazolam | 12 | $39 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 15 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pediatrics in Weslaco
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Clifford YutThe Woodlands$10.2M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Robert BellBeaumont$9.3M
- John ClintonPort Lavaca$8.6M
- Ronald BlairDallas$7.7M
- Wieslaw JakubowskiCorpus Christi$5M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
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.