Pediatric Infectious Diseases in Texas
66 providers, $1,912,999 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $166.
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 pediatric infectious diseases clinicians in Texas
Across 1 pediatric infectious diseases clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,869 in total — an average of $2,869 each, of which $2,869 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
- 1Jaime FergieCorpus Christi$1,087,495
- 2Flor de Maria MunozHouston$268,070
- 3Lawrence StanberryGalveston$225,190
- 4Janak PatelGalveston$118,391
- 5Rene AmayaHouston$42,526
- 6Denver NilesHouston$40,667
- 7Micah BhattiHouston$30,570
- 8Carol BakerHouston$30,142
- 9Gloria HeresiHouston$21,927
- 10Dennis ConradSan Antonio$16,864
- 11Coburn AllenAustin$6,094
- 12Gail DemmlerHouston$4,751
- 13Jeffrey StarkeHouston$3,600
- 14Lynne EgerFort Worth$2,643
- 15Mark KlineHouston$2,025
- 16Diana NguyenGalveston$1,626
- 17Carla CarrenoCarrollton$1,464
- 18Norma PerezHouston$1,288
- 19Liset Olarte CarhuazHouston$892
- 20Susan WoottonHouston$721
- 21Debra PalazziHouston$707
- 22Sheldon KaplanHouston$578
- 23Jane AtkinsSan Antonio$510
- 24Amanda EvansDallas$360
- 25Catherine FosterHouston$352
- 26Kathryn CarpenterHouston$307
- 27Misti EllsworthHouston$228
- 28Jesus VallejoHouston$212
- 29Kristen Valencia DerayHouston$206
- 30Gilberto HandalEl Paso$203
- 31Ryan RochatHouston$202
- 32Judith CampbellHouston$189
- 33Luis CastagniniSan Antonio$166
- 34Jonathon McNeilHouston$155
- 35Mark SheltonFort Worth$151
- 36Nicholas RisterFort Worth$134
- 37Gregory IstreCarrollton$125
- 38Linette LinsanganMcAllen$124
- 39Erin NicholsonHouston$105
- 40Marc MazadeFort Worth$91
- 41Takehisa IkedaHouston$87
- 42Eudys Briceno BritoSan Antonio$79
- 43Morouge Al RamadhanHouston$68
- 44Galit Holzmann-PazgalHouston$64
- 45Mary WhitworthFort Worth$59
- 46Sarmistha HaugerAustin$58
- 47Morven EdwardsHouston$56
- 48Steven SpencerSan Antonio$50
- 49Marisol FernandezAustin$44
- 50Catherine HealyHouston$37
- 51Donald MurpheyFort Worth$34
- 52Roukaya Al HammoudHouston$34
- 53Stella KaluHouston$34
- 54Michael ChangHouston$33
- 55Claire BocchiniHouston$29
- 56James BrienTemple$25
- 57Wendy ChungDallas$24
- 58William LojaMcAllen$24
- 59Matthew EberlyJbsa Ft Sam Houston$22
- 60Mehgan KiddDallas$22