Has Kelly Caldwell received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,122 in general payments to Kelly Caldwell across 193 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kelly Caldwell did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kelly Caldwell come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kelly Caldwell

Gerontology · Irving, TXNPI 1497274294

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.2% of the total across 193 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 33.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,568 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $62 in 2025.

$3,122in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 193 payments — averaging $16.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$178
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$176
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$120
UCB, Inc.$111
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$109
plus $1K from 33 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$261%
Food & beverage$3,09699%

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	70	$1,057
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	11	$178
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	17	$176
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	7	$120
UCB, Inc.	6	$111
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	7	$109
Genentech USA, Inc.	5	$104
Amgen(2 entities)	4	$91
Avion Pharmaceuticals	6	$84
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$81
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	4	$78
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	4	$70
SK Life Science, Inc.	3	$67
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	3	$63
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$52
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	3	$49
Novartis	3	$47
Abbott	2	$44
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$44
Sanofi	2	$43
Biogen	2	$41
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$38
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$38
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$37
EMD Serono, Inc.	2	$37
CSL Behring	2	$32
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$31
Argenx US, Inc.	1	$29
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$19
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Neurelis, Inc.	1	$19
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$18
Lundbeck LLC	1	$16
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	1	$15
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$14
Grifols USA, LLC	1	$14
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12

How this compares

$3,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 653 gerontology providers in Texas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa	32	$1,693

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Bailey EstesAbilene$34K
Scott ZelaHouston$28K
Marissa Marti-SmithDallas$27K
Andrew BargerAustin$22K
Meagan ChavarriaHouston$21K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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