Thomas Geppert
Rheumatology · Dallas, TXNPI 1174522874
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.4% of the total across 143 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,736 and has fallen 67.4% since, to $567 in 2021. That places this record below the midpoint for rheumatology clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,779.
Across 143 payments — averaging $17.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$540
- AbbVie$427
- Pfizer$310
- Lilly USA, LLC$259
- Novartis$176
- Radius Health, Inc.$137
- plus $718 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,55299%
- Education$151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 28 | $540 |
| AbbVie | 22 | $427 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $310 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $259 |
| Novartis | 4 | $176 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 6 | $137 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $137 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $133 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $101 |
| GSK | 4 | $73 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $73 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $67 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $49 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $38 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
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.
- COSENTYX$125
How this compares
$2,567 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.
Other rheumatology in Dallas
- John CushDallas$3.7M
- Zoran KurepaDallas$483K
- Giovanni GeslaniDallas$415K
- Dianne PetroneDallas$401K
- Stanley CohenDallas$318K
- Joanna GeslaniDallas$242K
- Sharad LakhanpalDallas$229K
- Iftikhar ChowdhryDallas$226K
- Srilatha KothandaramanDallas$140K
- Leyka BarbosaDallas$108K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.