Matthew Ellis
Medical Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1669495685
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 49 payments — averaging $5902.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nanostring Technologies, Inc.$267K
- Eli Lilly$7K
- Novartis$6K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$4K
- Veracyte, Inc.$3K
- Covis Pharma GmbH$750
- plus $560 from 5 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $875.00 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.
- Eli Lilly$875
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$267,24392%
- Consulting fees$18,6736%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,7001%
- Food & beverage$4370%
- Education$1680%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nanostring Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $267,243 |
| Eli Lilly | 6 | $7,483 |
| Novartis | 2 | $6,375 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 3 | $4,110 |
| Veracyte, Inc. | 7 | $2,700 |
| Covis Pharma GmbH | 1 | $750 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $306 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $167 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $58 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Gilead | 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.
- PROSIGNA ASSAY$267,243
- PIQRAY$3,375
- KISQALI$3,000
How this compares
$289,220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 495 medical oncology providers in Texas.
Other medical oncology in Houston
- Hagop KantarjianHouston$100.5M
- Timothy YapHouston$56.7M
- Yasir ElaminHouston$41.3M
- David HongHouston$31.6M
- Guillermo Garcia-ManeroHouston$31.6M
- Jason WestinHouston$30.8M
- Lucia MasarovaHouston$29.7M
- Jordi Rodon AhnertHouston$28.1M
- Sarina Piha PaulHouston$26M
- Jenny ChangHouston$17.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.