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

Irene Ekaney

Infectious Disease Sugar Land, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1639120827 CMS profile 73767

16659 Southwest Fwy Ste 371, Sugar Land, TX 77479

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General payments

$19,798

944 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, Irene Ekaney of Sugar Land, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $19,798 across 944 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 91st percentile of Infectious Disease 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 $2,504 110
2024 General $2,792 120
2023 General $3,225 144
2022 General $3,358 151
2021 General $3,288 160
2020 General $2,469 137
2019 General $2,162 122

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Irene Ekaney
  • Infectious Disease median
  • Middle half of Infectious Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Irene Ekaney were reported at $2,504. Among 3,905 Infectious Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $188 and the middle half received between $57 and $766.

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Year Irene Ekaney Infectious Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $2,162 $190 $60–$862 $163
2020 $2,469 $124 $32–$606 $114
2021 $3,288 $148 $38–$905 $132
2022 $3,358 $166 $50–$834 $149
2023 $3,225 $171 $57–$787 $160
2024 $2,792 $176 $52–$752 $164
2025 $2,504 $188 $57–$766 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $3,181 123 payments
  2. ViiV Healthcare Company $3,055 177 payments
  3. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $2,507 134 payments
  4. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $2,334 100 payments
  5. AbbVie, Inc. $1,511 78 payments
  6. Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. $1,442 80 payments
  7. Shionogi Inc $1,137 48 payments
  8. Allergan Inc. $647 35 payments
  9. Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $566 22 payments
  10. Cipla USA Inc. $514 7 payments
  11. Other $2,903 140 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $19,383 937 payments
  2. Education $415 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NUZYRA $3,181 123 payments
  2. AVYCAZ $1,594 82 payments
  3. Orbactiv $1,270 71 payments
  4. DALVANCE $1,160 58 payments
  5. Fetroja $1,137 48 payments
  6. Kimyrsa $1,057 55 payments
  7. PIFELTRO $1,047 52 payments
  8. DOVATO $1,007 78 payments
  9. DELSTRIGO $951 49 payments
  10. DIFICID $919 47 payments
  11. Other $10,348 480 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 · 18 drugs

Part D claims

450

Median for Infectious Disease: 268

Drug cost

$928,221

Median for Infectious Disease: $217,595

Branded share of claims

61.6%

Median for Infectious Disease: 45.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Biktarvy Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala Brand 110 $463,438
Descovy Emtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam Brand 40 $96,015
Triumeq Abacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi Brand 21 $76,039
Symtuza Darunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf Brand 15 $70,688
Tivicay Dolutegravir Sodium Brand 24 $61,520
Odefsey Emtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala Brand 16 $58,039
Genvoya Elviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen Brand 14 $52,393
Daptomycin Generic 23 $37,713
Meropenem Generic 25 $4,793
Ceftriaxone Ceftriaxone Sodium Brand 37 $2,745

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 18 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 5,546 Part D prescribers listed as Infectious Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 22 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$164,758

Of which drugs: $101,041

Medicare patients

194

Average age 74

Services billed

45,698

98 women, 96 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 59%
Ischemic heart disease 53%
Diabetes 52%
Chronic kidney disease 50%
Heart failure 43%
Depression 35%
Atrial fibrillation 34%
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, inclisiran, 1 mg J1306 Office 15 4,224 $40,383

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 23 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
NUZYRA
$280 — —
DOVATO
$279 — —
CABENUVA
$234 — —
AVYCAZ
$142 — —
DALVANCE
$142 — —

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

944 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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