Pooja Banerjee, MD
Rheumatology · Dallas, TXNPI 1538138011
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 504 payments — averaging $42.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$8K
- UCB, Inc.$8K
- AbbVie$1K
- Amgen$829
- AstraZeneca$673
- Pfizer$660
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,19047%
- Grants$2401%
- Travel & lodging$1,9719%
- Food & beverage$8,87641%
- Education$1881%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 182 | $8,177 |
| UCB, Inc. | 57 | $7,715 |
| AbbVie | 52 | $1,114 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 44 | $829 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 30 | $673 |
| Pfizer | 37 | $660 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 19 | $374 |
| Novartis | 18 | $316 |
| GSK | 15 | $307 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 12 | $242 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 4 | $217 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $175 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $148 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $142 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $100 |
| Progentec Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $58 |
| Organon | 4 | $41 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$21,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 59 | $487,457 |
| Orencia ClickjectAbatacept | 22 | $134,253 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 196 | $8,412 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 225 | $7,234 |
| Cevimeline Hcl | 25 | $7,159 |
| Leflunomide | 40 | $2,552 |
| Pilocarpine Hcl | 19 | $1,579 |
| Colchicine | 22 | $1,190 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 13 | $1,171 |
| Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine | 13 | $979 |
| Sulfasalazine | 20 | $759 |
| Prednisone | 52 | $367 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $365 |
| Folic Acid | 23 | $249 |
| Allopurinol | 26 | $201 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other rheumatology in Dallas
- John CushDallas$3.9M
- Stanley CohenDallas$1.9M
- David KarpDallas$788K
- Sharad LakhanpalDallas$718K
- Margarita FallenaDallas$488K
- Zoran KurepaDallas$483K
- Dianne PetroneDallas$437K
- Giovanni GeslaniDallas$415K
- Kathryn DaoDallas$381K
- Pedro CastilloDallas$379K
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.