Robyn Ward
Physician Assistant · Alvarado, TXNPI 1033401252
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 304 payments — averaging $73.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$9K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Novartis$573
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,10023%
- Travel & lodging$7,88935%
- Food & beverage$9,02940%
- Education$570%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 29 | $8,983 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 22 | $3,593 |
| Medtronic | 27 | $2,365 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $2,240 |
| Abbott | 43 | $1,406 |
| Novartis | 32 | $573 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $303 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $272 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 11 | $268 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $228 |
| Merck | 17 | $206 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $197 |
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $184 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $170 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $154 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 7 | $140 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $120 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $98 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $93 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $77 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| G Medical Diagnostic Services, Inc. | 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.
- OPTIMIZER$13,515
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,854
- WATCHMAN Access System$2,014
- LINQ II$889
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$720
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$619
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$524
- ONYX FRONTIER$404
- CardioMEMS HF System$309
- OPTIMIZER SMART SYSTEM$300
- FARXIGA$226
- remede System$159
- Fortify Assura, Ellipse ICD$146
- Abre$139
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$129
- Inpefa$122
- Repatha$120
- CAMZYOS$118
- SYMPLICITY G3$116
- Carto 3$114
How this compares
$22,375 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 36 | $41,246 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 12 | $15,840 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 45 | $503 |
| Carvedilol | 61 | $437 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 21 | $281 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 12 | $265 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 15 | $234 |
| Potassium Chloride | 14 | $227 |
| Losartan Potassium | 30 | $203 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 20 | $151 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 22 | $140 |
| Azithromycin | 21 | $105 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 15 | $91 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 12 | $86 |
| Lisinopril | 13 | $47 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $228 | $41,24636 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $573 | $15,84012 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 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Alvarado
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
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.