Sleep Medicine in Texas
112 providers, $2,992,431 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,720.
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 sleep medicine clinicians in Texas
Across 71 sleep medicine clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $8,931,726 in total — an average of $125,799 each, of which $125,302 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
- 1Gerard MeskillSugar Land$1,047,210
- 2Vikas JainFrisco$673,350
- 3Amit VermaHouston$493,093
- 4Jerald SimmonsHouston$165,353
- 5James AndrySan Antonio$99,779
- 6William BurkesBeaumont$99,417
- 7Ashwin GowdaAustin$70,856
- 8John DebusDallas$37,883
- 9Peter ObessoTyler$33,971
- 10Karen Hentschel FranksSan Antonio$17,859
- 11Bhavim DesaiAustin$16,854
- 12Amir TorabiMesquite$16,735
- 13John HudsonAustin$16,435
- 14Khanh TruongPlano$10,343
- 15Hanul BhandariSan Antonio$10,139
- 16Michael KellamPlano$9,581
- 17Brent StevensonFrisco$9,299
- 18Manoher GurruMidland$7,533
- 19Roberto DiazCorpus Christi$7,276
- 20Aaron PierceDallas$6,358
- 21Leon RosenthalHouston$6,158
- 22Cephas MujurukiWichita Falls$6,102
- 23Nabeel FarahDallas$5,684
- 24Andrew JamiesonDallas$5,466
- 25Nader EwaidaNorth Richland Hills$4,806
- 26Dario BeltranMidland$4,782
- 27Jack GardnerDallas$4,769
- 28Sherri Ten PasTyler$4,239
- 29Harneet SinghTomball$4,080
- 30Tuyet PhamDallas$3,866
- 31Kevin LinHouston$3,530
- 32Raghavendra GhugeTyler$3,375
- 33Vani VallabhaneniAustin$3,370
- 34Luis GuevaraLaredo$3,293
- 35Calli BertschyHouston$3,289
- 36Clarence WheelerLubbock$3,238
- 37Nici BothwellSan Antonio$3,143
- 38Avie GrunspanSan Antonio$3,142
- 39Rafael SantiagoSan Antonio$2,863
- 40Sidra SaeedDenton$2,761
- 41Robert MatlockWaco$2,449
- 42Annise WilsonHouston$2,287
- 43Jennifer HopkinsThe Woodlands$2,228
- 44Marisa GuilloryLongview$2,197
- 45Venu ParachuriTyler$2,156
- 46Sejal JainDallas$2,133
- 47Amita Shimpi BhallaHouston$2,083
- 48Aparajitha VermaHouston$2,065
- 49Rupini AllaDallas$2,037
- 50Katie TranDallas$1,985
- 51Henry ScheullerJbsa Lackland$1,887
- 52Cindy JonHouston$1,856
- 53Sreejith PillaiSan Antonio$1,826
- 54Mustansir VejlaniTomball$1,775
- 55Meer AhmedHouston$1,742
- 56Rizwana SultanaGalveston$1,720
- 57Sabina LinGeorgetown$1,587
- 58Edwin CharnockDesoto$1,544
- 59Arunkumar BadiDallas$1,469
- 60Mauro Mendez BaylonHouston$1,462