Obesity Medicine in Texas
17 providers, $452,942 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 obesity medicine clinicians in Texas
Across 8 obesity medicine clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $172,968 in total — an average of $21,621 each, of which $21,602 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
- 1Sully DrotarDallas$193,574
- 2Sameer MuraliHouston$93,371
- 3Alan GlombickiHouston$93,174
- 4Suzanne CudaSan Antonio$40,463
- 5Michael SegerSan Antonio$16,240
- 6Richa MittalFrisco$8,377
- 7Kurt ReyesMcKinney$4,471
- 8Laura MontesMcAllen$1,454
- 9Christina UlbrichDallas$793
- 10Michele CaveneePlano$363
- 11Ryan RatliffTyler$332
- 12Reginald ReedKingwood$143
- 13Larry RichardsonSpring$52
- 14Patrick WhitfieldPlano$48
- 15Kara JarkePlano$42
- 16Lee Ann KeelingHeath$29
- 17Danielle VasquezMidland$14