Orofacial Pain in Texas
16 providers, $15,490 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 orofacial pain clinicians in Texas
Across 5 orofacial pain clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $367,070 in total — an average of $73,414 each, of which $73,412 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
- 1Sam WiseRockwall$7,609
- 2Amrittej VirkSouthlake$3,339
- 3Andrew DrollingerHouston$2,721
- 4Steven BenderDallas$409
- 5Azusa KuwashimaSouthlake$353
- 6Andres Martinez PorrasHouston$321
- 7Veena KantiPlano$183
- 8Erkan OnurluSouthlake$160
- 9Hazha PashaCypress$143
- 10Thomas WeberJbsa Lackland$73
- 11Haba AbdullahAbilene$50
- 12Shilpa SinghEl Paso$44
- 13Lindsey CunninghamJbsa Lackland$35
- 14Diego Fernandez VialHouston$23
- 15Shanzae FaheemPlano$15
- 16Kenneth FanJbsa Lackland Afb$14