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

Jerald Simmons

Sleep Medicine Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1417045329 CMS profile 109538

2201 W Holcombe Blvd, Ste 325, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$165,353

408 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$1,283

Paid to them · 4 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$821,194 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2021–2025

Through program year 2025, Jerald Simmons of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $165,353 across 408 general payments and $1,283 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $821,194 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 97th percentile of Sleep Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,552 51
2024 General $8,413 52
2023 General $35,886 77
2023 Research $1,283 4
2022 General $14,339 32
2021 General $17,504 40
2020 General $40,019 69
2019 General $47,640 87

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Jerald Simmons
  • Sleep Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sleep Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Jerald Simmons were reported at $1,552. Among 263 Sleep Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $337 and the middle half received between $114 and $1,241.

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Year Jerald Simmons Sleep Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $47,640 $206 $79–$855 $163
2020 $40,019 $170 $48–$1,437 $114
2021 $17,504 $178 $53–$1,297 $132
2022 $14,339 $313 $95–$1,332 $149
2023 $35,886 $307 $117–$1,081 $160
2024 $8,413 $308 $100–$1,432 $164
2025 $1,552 $337 $114–$1,241 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. $57,722 132 payments
  2. Harmony Biosciences LLC $51,487 109 payments
  3. Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC $26,296 49 payments
  4. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $13,733 10 payments
  5. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $9,847 9 payments
  6. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. $3,915 58 payments
  7. Respicardia, Inc. $1,619 5 payments
  8. SK Life Science, Inc. $248 13 payments
  9. Resmed Corp $91 4 payments
  10. LivaNova USA, Inc. $63 3 payments
  11. Other $333 16 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $94,150 50 payments
  2. Honoraria $21,500 8 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $20,478 13 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $19,171 57 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $9,898 276 payments
  6. Education $157 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XYREM $54,054 94 payments
  2. Wakix Neurological Disorders $49,858 88 payments
  3. LUMRYZ $26,296 49 payments
  4. Sunosi $13,733 10 payments
  5. BELSOMRA $9,847 9 payments
  6. Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System $3,130 5 payments
  7. XYWAV $2,956 25 payments
  8. remede System $1,619 5 payments
  9. WAKIX Sleep Medicine $1,539 18 payments
  10. INSPIRE $785 53 payments
  11. Other $856 40 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $1,283 4 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

34

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$708

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

0%

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
Methylphenidate Hcl Generic 21 $656
Methadone Hcl Generic 13 $52

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 · 26 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$333,872

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

751

Average age 73

Services billed

3,712

345 women, 406 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 50%
Ischemic heart disease 34%
Diabetes 31%
Chronic kidney disease 22%
Depression 22%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
Cancer 14%

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

5 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
LUMRYZ
  • Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC $7,662
$7,662 — —
XYWAV
  • JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $206
$206 — —
XYREM
  • JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $183
$183 — —
Epidiolex
  • JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $24
$24 — —
HORIZANT
  • CutisPharma, Inc. $16
$16 — —

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.

Records

412 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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