Richard Helmer, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Austin, TXNPI 1447293899
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,404 of the $1,920 with a category attached, or 73.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.1% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,095 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $20 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hematology & oncology clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,204.
Across 32 payments — averaging $60.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$73
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$63
- AstraZeneca$41
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$38
- Gilead$29
- plus $272 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,40473%
- Food & beverage$50426%
- Education$121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $1,404 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $41 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $38 |
| Gilead | 2 | $29 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $27 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $14 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,366
How this compares
$1,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology 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.
Other hematology & oncology in Austin
- Michael LattanziAustin$222K
- Devesh PandyaHouston$1.8M
- Elias JabbourHouston$1.3M
- Asad DeanFort Worth$1.1M
- Habte YimerTyler$934K
- Edward PearsonDallas$900K
- Naval DaverHouston$853K
- Christopher MaiselDallas$713K
- Clifton LaymanEl Paso$645K
- Jorge Cortes-FrancoHouston$627K
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.