Kristine Kucera, PA
Physician Assistant · Melissa, TXNPI 1699970368
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 2,028 payments — averaging $392.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$245K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$118K
- Johnson & Johnson$110K
- UCB, Inc.$73K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$62K
- Amgen$56K
- plus $133K from 26 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $1641.00 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.
- AbbVie$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$105,53613%
- Speaking & faculty fees$556,32270%
- Travel & lodging$92,77812%
- Food & beverage$41,5035%
- Education$5810%
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(2 entities) | 486 | $245,143 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 249 | $117,911 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 233 | $110,348 |
| UCB, Inc. | 167 | $72,800 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 163 | $61,747 |
| Amgen | 146 | $56,184 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 107 | $53,051 |
| Pfizer | 50 | $17,802 |
| Novartis | 75 | $16,949 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 56 | $16,656 |
| Incyte Corporation | 35 | $7,319 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 50 | $6,182 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 11 | $5,090 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $3,827 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 49 | $1,500 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 42 | $1,206 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 31 | $948 |
| Almirall LLC | 23 | $574 |
| Sanofi | 18 | $515 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $343 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 4 | $162 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $112 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 7 | $86 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $70 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $33 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$796,719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 17 | $212 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 14 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Melissa
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
- Heidi JeffreysLubbock$259K
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.