Kristine Buth
Family · Flower Mound, TXNPI 1770250193
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $31.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$185
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$151
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$110
- Medtronic$84
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$71
- plus $512 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$98344%
- Food & beverage$1,27656%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 8 | $1,146 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 15 | $185 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $151 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 7 | $110 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $84 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 4 | $64 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $64 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $62 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $34 |
| Vertex | 1 | $24 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Biogen | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,259 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| CrotanCrotamiton | 18 | $46,927 |
| Naproxen | 49 | $18,956 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 89 | $7,818 |
| Ergotamine-CaffeineErgotamine Tartrate/Caffeine | 17 | $5,888 |
| Methocarbamol | 37 | $5,131 |
| Gabapentin | 98 | $1,777 |
| Lidocaine | 21 | $1,345 |
| Etodolac | 11 | $442 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 47 | $384 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Flower Mound
- Lashonda CraneHouston$3.4M
- David WeirDallas$959K
- Luba YammineHouston$479K
- Robin BeachHouston$428K
- Nirupama JeromeAustin$418K
- April LopezMcAllen$417K
- Linda MercadoHouston$211K
- Sarah AguilarHouston$199K
- Sie ThomasDallas$197K
- Anna CastroSan Antonio$184K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.