RxDoctor Payments Data

Karl Echiverri, MD

Neurology · Houston, TXNPI 1992168835

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,502in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $140.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$4K
  • Argenx US, Inc.$167
  • AbbVie$132
  • Biogen$68
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$29
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$29
  • plus $36 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,43876%
  • Food & beverage$1,06424%

General payments by program year

21
22
23
25

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.

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

$4,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

See all neurology providers in Texas

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,690
Medicare patients
143
Services billed
2,262

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate22$26,336
UbrelvyUbrogepant13$13,199
Sumatriptan Succinate17$2,065
Gabapentin95$1,471
Levetiracetam30$911
Lamotrigine11$745
Pregabalin15$581
RizatriptanRizatriptan Benzoate15$348
Duloxetine Hcl19$295
Topiramate29$251
Amitriptyline Hcl20$208
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl15$160
Atorvastatin Calcium11$95

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieUbrelvy$132$13,19913 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

Other neurology in Houston

See the full list for Texas

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →