Karen Marler
Medical · Houston, TXNPI 1427291525
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $34.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$629
- AbbVie$554
- Novo Nordisk$298
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$211
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$176
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,540100%
- Education$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $1,184 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $629 |
| AbbVie | 23 | $554 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $298 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $211 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 10 | $176 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $155 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $153 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $149 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Bayer | 1 | $120 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Novartis | 3 | $57 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $27 |
| CMP Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $21 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| BD | 1 | $20 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $18 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Nevro Corp. | 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.
How this compares
$4,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,490 medical providers in Texas.
Other medical in Houston
- Olga RodziyenskaHouston$65K
- Kathleen HoganHouston$26K
- Omni McCluneyHouston$18K
- Carl MayberryHouston$18K
- Carley BuddenbaumHouston$16K
- Jose de la CerdaSan Antonio$1.1M
- Mark DavisFort Worth$1M
- Joey Dixon-JulianBoerne$458K
- Terry FaleyeKingwood$243K
- Kimberly PoarchDallas$166K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.