Karen Sticka
Physician Assistant · Hurst, TXNPI 1780838136
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $144,345 of the $159,326 with a category attached, or 90.6%. AbbVie accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $87,673 and has fallen 77.7% since, to $19,580 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 310 payments — averaging $513.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$158K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$458
- Merz North America, Inc.$102
- Johnson & Johnson$97
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$70
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$58
- plus $245 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$144,34591%
- Travel & lodging$6,6674%
- Food & beverage$8,2645%
- Education$500%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 274 | $158,296 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 11 | $458 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $97 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Novartis | 3 | $54 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $25 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
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
$159,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Hurst
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
- Heidi JeffreysLubbock$259K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.