Kruti Patel-Konasagar
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 484 payments — averaging $21.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mannkind Corporation$2K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Dexcom, Inc.$888
- Novo Nordisk$835
- Corcept Therapeutics$769
- Cequr Corporation$404
- plus $4K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,27599%
- Education$110%
- Gifts$591%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mannkind Corporation | 78 | $1,889 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 77 | $1,448 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 63 | $888 |
| Novo Nordisk | 45 | $835 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 40 | $769 |
| Cequr Corporation | 2 | $404 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 13 | $355 |
| Amgen | 20 | $292 |
| Intuity Medical Inc | 11 | $252 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $247 |
| Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. | 5 | $236 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 5 | $224 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 5 | $194 |
| Bayer | 10 | $187 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $180 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 9 | $171 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $166 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $122 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 5 | $120 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 7 | $111 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $109 |
| Merck | 2 | $106 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $100 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $97 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $96 |
| Insulet Corporation | 4 | $96 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $94 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $77 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $75 |
| Novartis | 3 | $69 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $52 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $51 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd | 1 | $19 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Embecta Corp. | 1 | $15 |
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
$10,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 15,456 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 116 | $167,161 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 117 | $131,004 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 68 | $86,735 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 46 | $48,906 |
| Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide | 35 | $31,201 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 16 | $30,027 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 27 | $27,413 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 42 | $23,538 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 29 | $18,252 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $11,719 |
| Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart | 38 | $10,591 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 74 | $7,926 |
| Lyumjev Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro-Aabc | 14 | $6,598 |
| Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 33 | $4,848 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 32 | $3,188 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $835 | $197,188132 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $1,448 | $179,910163 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $247 | $86,73568 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33 | $180 | $31,20135 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $94 | $27,41327 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid, Armour Thyroid | $166 | $3,52345 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $75 | $929110 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 95th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
Other family in Katy
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.