RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Vanowen, MD

Neurology · Pasadena, TXNPI 1053447250

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,335in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 342 payments — averaging $18.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Biogen$722
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$446
  • Pfizer$428
  • Novartis$338
  • Amgen$310
  • plus $3K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$230%
  • Food & beverage$6,312100%

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

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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

$6,335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$236,041
Medicare patients
545
Services billed
16,382

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
AustedoDeutetrabenazine11$70,065
BotoxOnabotulinumtoxina29$49,718
QuliptaAtogepant32$34,588
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm16$13,499
Memantine Hcl96$2,226
Methocarbamol107$1,948
Levetiracetam81$1,946
Donepezil Hcl231$1,679
Gabapentin123$1,676
Oxcarbazepine28$1,453
Baclofen49$1,335
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa35$860
Pregabalin29$840
Primidone45$807
Lamotrigine32$653

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
AbbVieBotox, Qulipta$1,069$84,30561 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo$39$70,06511 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCPyridostigmine Bromide$37$61213 claims
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$21$13336 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 60th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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