Lekeisha Whitaker
Pediatrics · Arlington, TXNPI 1770719932
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 102 payments — averaging $18.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tris Pharma Inc$536
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$225
- Pfizer$143
- Merck$132
- Adlon Therapeutics L.p.$106
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$102
- plus $632 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,877100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tris Pharma Inc | 30 | $536 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 13 | $225 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $143 |
| Merck | 8 | $132 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 6 | $106 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 5 | $102 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 4 | $74 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $69 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $45 |
| GSK | 1 | $44 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,877 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Arlington
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Clifford YutThe Woodlands$10.2M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Robert BellBeaumont$9.3M
- John ClintonPort Lavaca$8.6M
- Ronald BlairDallas$7.7M
- Wieslaw JakubowskiCorpus Christi$5M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.