Open Payments · Texas

What drug & device companies paid Texas doctors

Between 2018 and 2025, companies reported $9.59B in payments to 156,079 Texas physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2025.

$9.59B
reported 2018–2025
156,079
physicians paid
$61,448
avg / physician
2,784
companies paying
$211M
biggest recipient

Areas are shaded by total reported payments. Hover over an area for detail, or click it to keep the detail open. About 98% of payments map to an area by ZIP code. PO-box and unique ZIP codes are excluded. Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays Texas doctors, and who gets paid

Reported payments for 2018–2025 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2025
PFIZER INC.$671M
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.,…$540M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$526M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$485M
Eli Lilly and Company$471M
ModernaTX, Inc.$432M
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$324M
Amgen Inc.$313M
Genentech, Inc.$246M
Arthrex, Inc.$233M

Biggest recipients

Texas physicians by total received, 2018–2025
Burkhart Stephen$211M
Farzaneh-Far Ramin$17M
Fordtran John$12M
Lebovic Gail$10M
Hitt Kirby$10M
Dorman John$8M
Jain Rakesh$8M
Elterman Roy$8M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2025
Orthopaedic Surgery$341M
Cardiovascular Disease$61M
Family Medicine$60M
Internal Medicine$55M
Gastroenterology$53M
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Meta…$49M
Psychiatry$48M
Dermatology$47M

By the numbers, 2018–2025

156,079

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$9.59B

reported across 10,067,135 individual payments.

How Texas compares nationally

Texas ranks 2nd of 51 for total reported payments, with $9.59B across 10,067,135 payments from 2018 to 2025. That is 10.3% of the $93.15B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $61,448 per recipient across 156,079 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 37% above the $44,986 national average (4th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was PFIZER INC. at $671M. The highest-paid specialty was Orthopaedic Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Burkhart Stephen, received $211M across 155 payments.

#2
of 51 in total payments
#4
of 51 per physician
10.3%
of all U.S. payments

Compare with nearby states

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