RxDoctor Payments Data

Shamsuddin Khwaja, MD

Neurological Surgery · Killeen, TXNPI 1487619284

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,382in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 720 payments — averaging $22.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$2K
  • EMD Serono, Inc.$2K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Abiomed$780
  • Biogen$721
  • plus $7K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$4703%
  • Food & beverage$15,72796%
  • Education$1851%

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

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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

$16,382 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$118,469
Medicare patients
354
Services billed
3,633

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe23$25,567
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate17$21,953
Oxcarbazepine14$2,042
Gabapentin58$1,928
Primidone27$1,377
Memantine Hcl44$1,339
Pregabalin30$1,297
Levetiracetam30$1,296
Zonisamide36$1,180
Topiramate57$904
Butorphanol Tartrate13$759
Tizanidine Hcl36$693
Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa24$665
Lamotrigine15$626
RizatriptanRizatriptan Benzoate25$624

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerNurtec Odt$416$21,95317 claims
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$124$90457 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 70th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

Other neurological surgery in Killeen

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