Tesfamariam Tedla, MD
Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1285834192
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 8 payments — averaging $16,123 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$129K
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$42
- Genentech USA, Inc.$14
- Emergent Biosolutions Inc.$13
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$68100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 5 | $128,915 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Emergent Biosolutions Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$128,983 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,760 family medicine 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.
Other family medicine in Houston
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
- Veronica FragosoHouston$24.5M
- Bonnie ColvilleHouston$19.6M
- Oscar de ValleHouston$12.8M
- van TranHouston$11M
- Joe PouzarHouston$10.7M
- Aalia Al-BarwaniHouston$6.8M
- Terence ChangHouston$3.3M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
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.