Pendleton Wickersham, MD
Rheumatology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1053380048
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 2,518 payments — averaging $871.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$537K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$493K
- Amgen$333K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$230K
- AstraZeneca$167K
- Lilly USA, LLC$116K
- plus $319K from 38 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $12,291 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$37K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$126,67613%
- Speaking & faculty fees$670,26770%
- Travel & lodging$125,03313%
- Food & beverage$31,1893%
- Education$3940%
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.
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
$2,194,348 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 512 rheumatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| RinvoqUpadacitinib | 95 | $771,076 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 54 | $501,755 |
| GammakedImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 11 | $339,916 |
| GammaplexImmun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga 0-50 | 12 | $192,790 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 17 | $184,472 |
| EnbrelEtanercept | 19 | $178,843 |
| BenlystaBelimumab | 43 | $162,606 |
| OtezlaApremilast | 32 | $162,223 |
| Bimzelx AutoinjectorBimekizumab-Bkzx | 12 | $146,796 |
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 15 | $124,450 |
| Orencia ClickjectAbatacept | 18 | $98,421 |
| KevzaraSarilumab | 16 | $77,497 |
| SaphneloAnifrolumab-Fnia | 14 | $71,141 |
| SimponiGolimumab | 11 | $67,564 |
| OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose | 11 | $48,956 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRinvoq, Savella, Synthroid | $536,992 | $790,431136 claims |
| AmgenEnbrel, Otezla | $332,903 | $341,06651 claims |
| Bio Products Laboratory USA, Inc.Gammaplex | $43 | $192,79012 claims |
| GSKBenlysta | $51,351 | $162,60643 claims |
| SanofiKevzara | $20,518 | $77,49716 claims |
| AstraZenecaSaphnelo | $167,296 | $71,14114 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonSimponi | $40,384 | $67,56411 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia | $8,415 | $48,95611 claims |
| PfizerPaxlovid | $4,757 | $1,42917 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 95th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.
Other rheumatology in San Antonio
- Agustin EscalanteSan Antonio$684K
- Alex DejesusSan Antonio$505K
- Paul PickrellAustin$40.9M
- Atul SinghalMesquite$13.9M
- Shaikh AliTomball$9.8M
- Jitendra VasandaniLubbock$6.4M
- Dhiman BasuColleyville$6.2M
- Tamar BrionezThe Woodlands$5.2M
- Philip WallerHouston$4.9M
- John CushDallas$3.9M
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.