Kathryn Ackerman
Women's Health · Houston, TXNPI 1043654932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 95 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $676, 2.3 times the $294 reported in 2021. Among women's health clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 95 payments — averaging $23.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$457
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$257
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$227
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$196
- Pfizer$163
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$160
- plus $784 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,244100%
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 | 17 | $457 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $257 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 7 | $227 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 8 | $196 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $163 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 8 | $160 |
| Exact Sciences | 7 | $137 |
| Organon | 5 | $100 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $91 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Bayer | 2 | $47 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Mycovia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 609 women's health 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 20 | $1,119 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other women's health in Houston
- Joann St PierreHouston$15K
- Lori WinkHouston$9K
- Andrea DunnHouston$6K
- Kim GustafsonHouston$4K
- Erica SmithHouston$4K
- Christie LouisHouston$3K
- Mary UmbleHouston$3K
- Kim OkewunmiHouston$3K
- Evelyn TingGrapevine$89K
- Christina TrumanWaco$70K
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.