RxDoctor Payments Data

Megan Fankhauser, MD

Neurology · Houston, TXNPI 1003171158

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,876in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $77.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$6K
  • Novartis$312
  • AstraZeneca$109
  • Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.$103
  • Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$89
  • Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$66
  • plus $518 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,46679%
  • Food & beverage$1,39720%
  • Education$140%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$6,876 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$40,953
Medicare patients
212
Services billed
421

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
TecfideraDimethyl Fumarate11$94,699
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate36$38,509
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe39$29,621
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm26$24,385
EliquisApixaban21$6,269
Eletriptan HbrEletriptan Hydrobromide15$5,179
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine24$3,515
Memantine Hcl72$3,376
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa85$3,323
Levetiracetam122$2,973
Gabapentin101$1,692
Divalproex Sodium77$1,572
Donepezil Hcl98$1,423
Baclofen59$1,236
RizatriptanRizatriptan Benzoate45$1,236

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
BiogenTecfidera$28$94,69911 claims
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$37$1,06178 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 60th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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