Psychiatry in Texas
2,238 providers, $39,716,809 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $228.
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 psychiatry clinicians in Texas
Across 1,013 psychiatry clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $42,316,643 in total — an average of $41,774 each, of which $41,708 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
- 1Rakesh JainLake Jackson$7,226,440
- 2Arvinder Pal WaliaAustin$2,540,630
- 3Suresh SureddiPlano$2,175,157
- 4Martin GuerreroEl Paso$1,953,076
- 5Marty BennettAddison$1,844,259
- 6Matthew BramsHouston$1,504,805
- 7Vikram MehraKaty$1,197,915
- 8Joel HolinerDallas$947,669
- 9Frank ChenHouston$940,723
- 10Alice MaoHouston$849,920
- 11Mazhar KhowajaHouston$842,666
- 12Jose IgoaMcAllen$820,852
- 13Barry GritzHouston$792,315
- 14Jonathan LockhartLongview$764,569
- 15Augustus RushDallas$759,556
- 16Thomas WeissSan Antonio$744,180
- 17Napoleon HigginsFriendswood$718,589
- 18Aaron PetersonHouston$699,752
- 19Ayesha RashidHouston$641,122
- 20James RushAmarillo$513,561
- 21Lawrence GinsbergHouston$501,674
- 22Kathy FlanaganHouston$443,470
- 23Nathan JohnstonSan Antonio$435,203
- 24Charles NemeroffAustin$428,591
- 25Cathal GrantBedford$414,461
- 26Darin OkudaDallas$402,188
- 27David CrumpackerPlano$386,348
- 28Rayan Al JurdiHouston$358,714
- 29Prashant GajwaniHouston$355,028
- 30Stephen VobachDallas$277,980
- 31Carolyn RekerdresDallas$258,545
- 32Daniel TanHouston$247,489
- 33Madhukar TrivediDallas$209,342
- 34Jason MensahBeaumont$207,660
- 35Wasiq ZaidiArlington$170,613
- 36Damaso OlivaSan Antonio$170,494
- 37John NausColleyville$164,192
- 38Andrew KimFort Worth$162,123
- 39Sandhya PrashadHouston$157,365
- 40Edmund WilliamsSan Antonio$142,318
- 41Sanjay MathewHouston$133,585
- 42Deena GandhiSugar Land$125,310
- 43James HaroldHouston$120,423
- 44Ignacio ValdesHouston$114,553
- 45Donald HauserBellaire$107,991
- 46Carlos TiradoWimberley$101,624
- 47Aghaegbulam UgaEl Paso$93,447
- 48Stephen KramerHouston$90,000
- 49Angel Rodriguez-ChevresEl Paso$82,282
- 50Lauren MarangellHouston$81,371
- 51Adrian AgapitoEdinburg$78,514
- 52Ruben Pinero FuentesBrownsville$74,215
- 53Jair SoaresSan Antonio$69,455
- 54Joao de QuevedoHouston$69,091
- 55Ella DalyDallas$67,185
- 56Bernard RosenbergSpring$64,435
- 57Shahla AliAllen$51,798
- 58Divyansu PatelAustin$49,784
- 59Thomas ShoafRichardson$43,563
- 60James RedmondSan Antonio$42,253