Nutrition in Texas
12 providers, $1,376 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 nutrition clinicians in Texas
Across 1 nutrition clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,887 in total — an average of $9,887 each, of which $9,887 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
- 1Michael NormanCarrollton$589
- 2Micah BarberNew Braunfels$133
- 3Wesley PlyNew Braunfels$133
- 4James MacieSan Antonio$122
- 5Reece HaydenHouston$85
- 6Brianna OrtizPantego$81
- 7Vanessa MoralesDallas$70
- 8Doreen Lewis-OvertonSan Antonio$61
- 9Daniel BeltranSan Antonio$39
- 10Dennis CannonFlower Mound$32
- 11Michael PhillipsArlington$16
- 12Daniel GarciaDallas$15