Stephanie Cobb, DO
Infectious Disease · Austin, TXNPI 1710373428
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 39 payments — averaging $21.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$233
- Viiv Healthcare Company$146
- Insmed, Inc.$125
- EMD Serono, Inc.$83
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$64
- Merck$49
- plus $139 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$838100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 13 | $233 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 6 | $146 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 6 | $125 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| Merck | 2 | $49 |
| Gilead | 2 | $37 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $26 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 576 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daptomycin | 12 | $11,374 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 104 | $5,154 |
| Cefadroxil | 85 | $4,120 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 68 | $4,010 |
| Cefepime Hcl | 18 | $3,850 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 19 | $3,513 |
| Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam | 15 | $3,435 |
| Penicillin G Potassium | 12 | $2,373 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 34 | $808 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $290 |
| Azithromycin | 11 | $223 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 21 | $140 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 21 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Austin
- Brian MetzgerAustin$287K
- Gene VoskuhlSherman$69.5M
- Mezgebe BerheDallas$11M
- Eleftherios MylonakisHouston$6.4M
- Mamta JainDallas$3.7M
- Cheryl McDonaldFort Worth$3.1M
- Ogechika AlozieEl Paso$2.5M
- Roberto ArduinoHouston$2.1M
- Issam RaadHouston$2M
- Joseph GatheHouston$1.9M
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.