Khozema Palanpurwala
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1386611721
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 641 payments — averaging $15,067 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$7.9M
- Novavax Inc$694K
- Vivus LLC$485K
- Seqirus USA Inc$209K
- AbbVie$189K
- Genentech, Inc.$80K
- plus $104K from 19 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $7858.51 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$24K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,358100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 313 | $7,896,528 |
| Novavax Inc | 74 | $694,369 |
| Vivus LLC | 34 | $484,698 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 17 | $208,981 |
| AbbVie | 94 | $189,430 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 10 | $79,747 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $63,728 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 6 | $21,801 |
| Merck | 12 | $7,250 |
| GSK | 11 | $6,849 |
| Eli Lilly | 8 | $3,326 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $340 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 6 | $129 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $114 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| Corium, LLC | 3 | $74 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 4 | $59 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 4 | $57 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$9,657,812 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
- Pedro PiedraHouston$2.9M
- Homero GarzaHouston$1.7M
- Vernon SuttonHouston$1.2M
- Daniel GlazeHouston$981K
- Naila SiddiqiHouston$642K
- Michael WanglerHouston$459K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.