Stephen Usala, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Amarillo, TXNPI 1992879563
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $25.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$177
- Lilly USA, LLC$159
- AbbVie$63
- Johnson & Johnson$54
- Amgen$47
- plus $269 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,040100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 24 | $1,281 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 12 | $177 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $159 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $63 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $54 |
| Amgen | 3 | $47 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 2 | $32 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $24 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $12 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $11 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $11 |
| Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Macrilen$970
How this compares
$2,049 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 658 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocortisone | 90 | $9,277 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 129 | $1,279 |
| Methimazole | 32 | $258 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism in Amarillo
- William BiggsAmarillo$2.2M
- Julio RosenstockDallas$24.9M
- Michelle WelchShavano Park$17.3M
- Maria CabanillasHouston$16.4M
- Sumana GangiMesquite$13.2M
- Damaris VegaHouston$12.3M
- Mark KipnesSan Antonio$10.3M
- Amer Al KaradshehHouston$8.8M
- Ildiko LingvayDallas$8.2M
- Eduardo LunaEdinburg$7.6M
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.