Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ester Pollard

Hematology & Oncology Corpus Christi, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1225002843 CMS profile 55552

712 Booty St, Corpus Christi, TX 78404

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General payments

$28,348

1,188 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$211,476 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2023

Through program year 2025, Ester Pollard of Corpus Christi, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $28,348 across 1,188 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $211,476 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 84th percentile of Hematology & Oncology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $3,430 156
2024 General $4,591 196
2023 General $4,049 187
2022 General $4,221 198
2021 General $3,105 165
2020 General $1,726 96
2019 General $7,227 190

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ester Pollard
  • Hematology & Oncology median
  • Middle half of Hematology & Oncology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ester Pollard were reported at $3,430. Among 8,769 Hematology & Oncology profiles paid that year, the median was $683 and the middle half received between $143 and $3,154.

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Year Ester Pollard Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $7,227 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $1,726 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $3,105 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $4,221 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $4,049 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $4,591 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $3,430 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $6,217 94 payments
  2. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,937 113 payments
  3. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $1,686 105 payments
  4. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $1,178 60 payments
  5. Amgen Inc. $1,090 58 payments
  6. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,006 30 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $927 73 payments
  8. Genzyme Corporation $800 40 payments
  9. Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $708 34 payments
  10. Genentech USA, Inc. $674 31 payments
  11. Other $12,125 550 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $22,928 1,154 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $3,200 1 payment
  3. Education $1,420 31 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $800 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Tavalisse $6,217 94 payments
  2. OPDIVO $1,330 82 payments
  3. KEYTRUDA $1,163 59 payments
  4. Rezlidhia $920 37 payments
  5. FOTIVDA $708 34 payments
  6. Doptelet $617 28 payments
  7. BESREMI $580 24 payments
  8. TASIGNA $552 36 payments
  9. PROMACTA $549 32 payments
  10. JAKAFI $542 28 payments
  11. Other $19,383 1,014 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 89 drugs

Part D claims

4,459

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$2,737,495

Median for Hematology-Oncology: $1,306,514

Branded share of claims

34.8%

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 31.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jakafi Ruxolitinib Phosphate Brand 26 $650,803
Promacta Eltrombopag Olamine Brand 38 $444,298
Fotivda Tivozanib Hcl Brand 13 $390,762
Tavalisse Fostamatinib Disodium Brand 29 $345,873
Tasigna Nilotinib Hcl Brand 31 $312,387
Venclexta Venetoclax Brand 32 $203,660
Besremi Ropeginterferon Alfa-2b-Njft Brand 11 $169,219
Zarxio Filgrastim-Sndz Brand 25 $63,590
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 33 $33,602
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 947 $26,744

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 89 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 8,746 Part D prescribers listed as Hematology-Oncology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 42 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$61,330

Of which drugs: $1,476

Medicare patients

105

Average age 67

Services billed

2,545

67 women, 38 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Diabetes 50%
Arthritis 47%
COPD 37%
Depression 36%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
Cancer 27%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, iron dextran, 50 mg J1750 Office 22 50 $585
Injection, thiamine hcl, 100 mg J3411 Office 23 39 $62
Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg J3420 Office 35 58 $56
Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 Office 27 60 $30
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 44 196 $17
Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 Office 11 14 $5

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 59 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
BESREMI
$370 11 —
OJJAARA
$303 — —
KEYTRUDA
$293 — —
Fabhalta
$226 — —
OPDIVO
$219 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,188 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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