Kathryn Hester, MD
Rheumatology · Arlington, TXNPI 1336350040
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 267 payments — averaging $16.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Amgen$857
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$743
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$247
- GSK$203
- Lilly USA, LLC$150
- plus $970 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,48599%
- Education$381%
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 | 81 | $1,354 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 58 | $857 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 39 | $743 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 13 | $247 |
| GSK | 10 | $203 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $150 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $136 |
| Novartis | 7 | $113 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $113 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $111 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Organon | 3 | $51 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $39 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $21 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $19 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$4,524 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 512 rheumatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 106 | $818,262 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 63 | $549,992 |
| Orencia ClickjectAbatacept | 28 | $176,946 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 310 | $7,038 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 222 | $6,993 |
| Prednisone | 670 | $3,954 |
| Cevimeline Hcl | 15 | $3,621 |
| Sulfasalazine | 35 | $1,324 |
| Folic Acid | 121 | $1,235 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $904 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 34 | $627 |
| Risedronate Sodium | 12 | $596 |
| Allopurinol | 13 | $332 |
| Omeprazole | 19 | $331 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 12 | $326 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other rheumatology in Arlington
- Paul PickrellAustin$40.9M
- Atul SinghalMesquite$13.9M
- Shaikh AliTomball$9.8M
- Jitendra VasandaniLubbock$6.4M
- Dhiman BasuColleyville$6.2M
- Tamar BrionezThe Woodlands$5.2M
- Philip WallerHouston$4.9M
- John CushDallas$3.9M
- Sabeen NajamBaytown$3.6M
- Sanjay ChabraEl Paso$3.6M
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.