Has Nissi Varghese received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,212 in general payments to Nissi Varghese across 704 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Nissi Varghese did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Nissi Varghese come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Nissi Varghese

Family · Frisco, TXNPI 1104350552

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,212in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 704 payments — averaging $21.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$3K
Biogen$1K
UCB, Inc.$1K
Pfizer$578
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$564
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$469
plus $9K from 54 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$15,212100%

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(2 entities)	134	$2,639
Biogen	45	$1,025
UCB, Inc.	43	$1,003
Pfizer	44	$578
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$564
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	27	$469
Bristol Myers Squibb	26	$461
Amgen(2 entities)	19	$408
Grifols USA, LLC	10	$396
Genentech USA, Inc.	17	$388
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	19	$388
Lundbeck LLC	22	$367
Lilly USA, LLC	12	$358
SK Life Science, Inc.	13	$335
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	20	$314
Sanofi	8	$307
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	16	$293
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	12	$285
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	11	$279
Novartis	16	$278
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	12	$275
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	8	$250
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	11	$222
EMD Serono, Inc.	6	$217
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$215
Argenx US, Inc.	7	$213
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	11	$205
Eisai Inc.	8	$197
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	11	$175
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	7	$157
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$153
Octapharma USA, Inc.	6	$137
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$124
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$107
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$81
Neurelis, Inc.	4	$80
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	4	$78
Livanova USA, Inc.	3	$77
CSL Behring	4	$76
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$73
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$70
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$69
MDD US Operations, LLC	2	$66
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$60
Corium, LLC	2	$52
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$51
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$50
Medtronic	1	$49
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$47
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$46
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$44
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$43
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$34
Sandoz	1	$32
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$30
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	2	$28
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$27
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	1	$23
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$20
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$19

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

$15,212 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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