Who Paid My Doc
Karen Brown
Forensic Psychiatry Houston, TX Medical Doctor
NPI 1558342956 CMS profile 343045
820 Gessner Rd, #750, Houston, TX 77024
General payments
$17,392
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Karen Brown of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $17,392 across 791 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 97th percentile of Forensic Psychiatry 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 | $1,873 | 89 | |
| 2024 | General | $1,708 | 75 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,267 | 65 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,785 | 99 | |
| 2021 | General | $5,590 | 158 | |
| 2020 | General | $2,805 | 162 | |
| 2019 | General | $2,363 | 143 |
Beside peers
- Karen Brown
- Forensic Psychiatry median
- Middle half of Forensic Psychiatry
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Karen Brown were reported at $1,873. Among 86 Forensic Psychiatry profiles paid that year, the median was $125 and the middle half received between $34 and $306.
Show as a table
| Year | Karen Brown | Forensic Psychiatry median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $2,363 | $143 | $61–$431 | $163 |
| 2020 | $2,805 | $112 | $36–$301 | $114 |
| 2021 | $5,590 | $113 | $38–$343 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,785 | $113 | $67–$475 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,267 | $139 | $66–$415 | $160 |
| 2024 | $1,708 | $117 | $36–$341 | $164 |
| 2025 | $1,873 | $125 | $34–$306 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 drugsPart D claims
3,872
Drug cost
$582,371
Branded share of claims
27.1%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingrezza Valbenazine Tosylate | Brand | 37 | $301,647 | |
| Spravato Esketamine Hcl | Brand | 33 | $55,142 | |
| Rexulti Brexpiprazole | Brand | 28 | $52,980 | |
| Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide | Brand | 13 | $18,990 | |
| Vyvanse Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate | Brand | 46 | $17,033 | |
| Cymbalta Duloxetine Hcl | Brand | 14 | $14,643 | |
| Lurasidone Hcl | Generic | 59 | $11,930 | |
| Fetzima Levomilnacipran Hcl | Brand | 14 | $10,454 | |
| Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate | Generic | 40 | $10,123 | |
| Zubsolv Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | Brand | 12 | $8,638 |
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 1,891 Part D prescribers listed as Neuropsychiatry; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 25 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPLYTA |
|
$267 | — | — |
| VRAYLAR |
|
$239 | — | — |
| Qelbree |
|
$225 | — | — |
| REXULTI |
|
$132 | 28 | — |
| Austedo XR |
|
$105 | — | — |
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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.