Megan Starks
Family Medicine · Dallas, TXNPI 1649740549
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 172 payments — averaging $19.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$561
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$367
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$279
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$238
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$214
- Johnson & Johnson$202
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,25997%
- Education$1013%
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 | 34 | $561 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 19 | $367 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 8 | $279 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $238 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $214 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $202 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $199 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $183 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $134 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $134 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $133 |
| GSK | 7 | $98 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $83 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 6 | $76 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 5 | $73 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $66 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Merck | 3 | $40 |
| Clozex Medical Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $2 |
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
$3,361 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Other family medicine in Dallas
- Thomas KingDallas$12M
- Jennifer ZonDallas$5.9M
- Chrisette DharmagunaratneDallas$5.6M
- Michele ReynoldsDallas$3.8M
- Shiwali RaiDallas$2.8M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
- Hareshkumar BogharaDesoto$30.3M
- Earl MartinTomball$30.1M
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.