Family Health in Texas
23 providers, $39,601 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $375.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays family health clinicians in Texas
Across 8 family health clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $176,310 in total — an average of $22,039 each, of which $21,477 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Virgina WrightAmarillo$16,523
- 2Laura MizellMontgomery$9,294
- 3Carrie PhillipsForney$2,070
- 4Kristine LunaCorpus Christi$1,843
- 5Maricruz BloomquistWeslaco$1,789
- 6Claudia GuillenWeatherford$1,746
- 7Michelle UlrichAustin$1,395
- 8Kimberly AustinWaco$1,085
- 9Kimberly YoungPasadena$1,081
- 10Tiffany GomezSan Antonio$889
- 11Terri SpeckFort Worth$424
- 12Miriam FuentesEl Paso$375
- 13Benjamin CaldwellGun Barrel City$297
- 14Lynne PiascikConroe$201
- 15Cheryl FostelDallas$167
- 16Tamitha MackeySpring$124
- 17Diana GuerraPharr$72
- 18Edith Eche-UmehHouston$63
- 19Gloria GallegosPleasanton$57
- 20Joel BrockIrving$45
- 21Inga MerzWebster$30
- 22Luis Diaz GonzalezKaty$18
- 23Anita MarshallMidland$11