Margarete Borck, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 232 payments — averaging $17.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Biogen$595
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$333
- UCB, Inc.$278
- Lilly USA, LLC$195
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$194
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$291%
- Food & beverage$3,97399%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 102 | $1,061 |
| Biogen | 15 | $595 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 22 | $333 |
| UCB, Inc. | 9 | $278 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $195 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 12 | $194 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $190 |
| Amgen | 12 | $186 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $115 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $105 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $57 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $54 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $34 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $34 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 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
$4,016 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,246 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avonex Pen (4 Pack)Interferon Beta-1a | 29 | $246,602 |
| Avonex (4 Pack)Interferon Beta-1a | 14 | $115,722 |
| Kesimpta PenOfatumumab | 11 | $93,610 |
| CopaxoneGlatiramer Acetate | 15 | $87,929 |
| Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate | 49 | $83,323 |
| Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe | 99 | $71,544 |
| Teriflunomide | 22 | $67,466 |
| Glatiramer Acetate | 20 | $49,237 |
| Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm | 51 | $38,889 |
| QuliptaAtogepant | 23 | $33,756 |
| Emgality SyringeGalcanezumab-Gnlm | 14 | $22,687 |
| NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine | 12 | $17,478 |
| UbrelvyUbrogepant | 11 | $17,134 |
| GlatopaGlatiramer Acetate | 11 | $15,305 |
| XcopriCenobamate | 12 | $13,517 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BiogenAvonex (4 Pack) | $595 | $115,72214 claims |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Copaxone | $54 | $87,92915 claims |
| PfizerNurtec Odt | $17 | $83,32349 claims |
| AbbVieQulipta, Ubrelvy | $1,061 | $50,89034 claims |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta | $67 | $17,47812 claims |
| SK Life Science, Inc.Xcopri | $24 | $13,51712 claims |
| UCB, Inc.Vimpat | $278 | $5,76611 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 50th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.
Other neurology in Tyler
- Ann BassSan Antonio$12.3M
- Kandasami SenthilkumarBeaumont$7.6M
- Bharathy SundaramSherman$7.2M
- Bhupesh DiheniaLubbock$6.9M
- Jamshid LotfiHouston$6M
- Nazanin MajdHouston$5.9M
- Aziz ShaibaniHouston$5.5M
- Elizabeth PeckhamRound Rock$5.4M
- Susan IannacconeDallas$5.1M
- Benjamin GreenbergDallas$4.6M
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.