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

Eugene Lai

Neurology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1790871002 CMS profile 172623

6560 Fannin St, Suite 802, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$19,783

717 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Eugene Lai of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $19,783 across 717 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 83rd percentile of Neurology 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 $1,763 73
2024 General $2,466 109
2023 General $3,240 123
2022 General $1,873 92
2021 General $2,111 110
2020 General $3,468 90
2019 General $4,862 120

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Eugene Lai
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Eugene Lai were reported at $1,763. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Eugene Lai Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $4,862 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $3,468 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $2,111 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $1,873 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $3,240 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $2,466 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $1,763 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Eisai Inc. $2,908 19 payments
  2. Acorda Therapeutics, Inc $2,181 26 payments
  3. EMD Serono, Inc. $1,103 48 payments
  4. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,088 46 payments
  5. ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc $1,042 56 payments
  6. CSL Behring $876 40 payments
  7. AbbVie, Inc. $862 48 payments
  8. UCB, Inc. $795 36 payments
  9. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $720 35 payments
  10. Lilly USA, LLC $543 21 payments
  11. Other $7,666 342 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $15,002 681 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $4,095 2 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $486 25 payments
  4. Education $201 9 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. INBRIJA $2,181 26 payments
  2. Hizentra $876 40 payments
  3. ULTOMIRIS $792 32 payments
  4. NUPLAZID Parkinsons Disease Psychosis $624 33 payments
  5. Briviact $556 22 payments
  6. REXULTI $537 27 payments
  7. PANZYGA $471 24 payments
  8. OCTAGAM IMMUNE GLOBULIN (HUMAN) $471 24 payments
  9. RELYVRIO $424 2 payments
  10. NUPLAZID Parkinsons Disease Psychosis $418 23 payments
  11. Other $9,698 477 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 · 50 drugs

Part D claims

3,475

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$1,139,653

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

38%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Nuplazid Pimavanserin Tartrate Brand 94 $483,297
Gocovri Amantadine Hcl Brand 41 $147,003
Vumerity Diroximel Fumarate Brand 13 $109,989
Ingrezza Valbenazine Tosylate Brand 12 $102,756
Gamunex-C Immune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 Brand 12 $94,876
Carbidopa-Levodopa Carbidopa/Levodopa Brand 601 $25,248
Rexulti Brexpiprazole Brand 17 $23,642
Rytary Carbidopa/Levodopa Brand 18 $21,463
Aimovig Autoinjector Erenumab-Aooe Brand 14 $15,986
Botox Onabotulinumtoxina Brand 15 $15,694

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 50 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 17 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$110,461

Of which drugs: $32,380

Medicare patients

336

Average age 77

Services billed

7,401

161 women, 175 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%
Arthritis 48%
Ischemic heart disease 40%
Depression 38%
Alzheimer's or dementia 37%
Diabetes 28%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
Osteoporosis 24%
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, onabotulinumtoxina, 1 unit J0585 Office 15 6,500 $32,380

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 28 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
ULTOMIRIS
  • Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $459
$459 — —
NUPLAZID
  • ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc $223
$223 94 —
REXULTI
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $175
$175 17 —
Hizentra
  • CSL Behring $169
$169 — —
Austedo XR
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $154
$154 — —

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

717 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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