Sushma Gorrela
Family Medicine · Spring, TXNPI 1063482321
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 132 payments — averaging $5872.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$452K
- Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$185K
- Evofem Biosciences, Inc.$55K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$47K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$13K
- Pfizer$9K
- plus $13K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$23194%
- Education$156%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 52 | $451,719 |
| Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 26 | $184,838 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 10 | $55,332 |
| Kowa Research Institute, Inc. | 24 | $47,480 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $13,200 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $9,246 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $7,216 |
| GSK | 2 | $5,957 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $19 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$775,199 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 34 | $575 |
| Losartan Potassium | 35 | $308 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 14 | $301 |
| Ezetimibe | 15 | $299 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 16 | $294 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 24 | $208 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $206 |
| Metformin Hcl | 32 | $128 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $109 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 18 | $95 |
| Furosemide | 12 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Spring
- Mimi van der LedenSpring$2.6M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
- Hareshkumar BogharaDesoto$30.3M
- Earl MartinTomball$30.1M
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
- William SegerFort Worth$27.5M
- Veronica FragosoHouston$24.5M
- Joel SolisMcAllen$21.1M
- George AtieeSan Antonio$19.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.