Kathleen Herne, MD
Dermatology · Austin, TXNPI 1871565648
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 206 payments — averaging $31.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$922
- UCB, Inc.$611
- Kerecis Limited$473
- Amgen$444
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$393
- plus $3K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,441100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 42 | $1,059 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 23 | $922 |
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $611 |
| Kerecis Limited | 10 | $473 |
| Amgen | 14 | $444 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 10 | $393 |
| Novartis | 10 | $322 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $267 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $234 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $211 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $181 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $167 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $163 |
| Organon | 1 | $144 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 7 | $140 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 3 | $125 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $120 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $80 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 5 | $78 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $59 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $32 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $29 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, 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.
- DUPIXENT$583
- Kerecis SurgiClose$549
- PuraPly$481
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$479
- Bimzelx$365
- BOTOX$233
- Otezla$225
- VTAMA$144
- Kerecis GraftGuide$137
- COSENTYX$124
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$120
- CIBINQO$118
How this compares
$6,441 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,098 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 74 | $2,390 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 127 | $2,068 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 116 | $1,396 |
| Fluorouracil | 16 | $1,276 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 25 | $1,069 |
| Ketoconazole | 54 | $735 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 20 | $648 |
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 22 | $613 |
| Hydrocortisone | 65 | $454 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 12 | $422 |
| Mupirocin | 34 | $276 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 27 | $202 |
| Fluconazole | 18 | $164 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 13 | $129 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Austin
- Edward LainAustin$12M
- Janet DuboisAustin$3.5M
- Daniel CarrascoAustin$1.4M
- Dale SchaeferAustin$1M
- Heidi PratherAustin$543K
- Ali ShahbazAustin$413K
- David BushoreAustin$385K
- Blakely RichardsonAustin$279K
- Stephen TyringWebster$14.1M
- Mark LeeSan Antonio$10.9M
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.