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

Najmuddin Karimjee

Internal Medicine Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1285660241 CMS profile 285238

12015 Louetta Rd, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77070

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General payments

$8,329

482 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$129,888

Paid to them · 12 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$2,619,483 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Najmuddin Karimjee of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,329 across 482 general payments and $129,888 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $2,619,483 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 99th percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

11 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,749 101
2024 General $2,132 121
2023 General $1,183 73
2023 Research $18,591 6
2022 General $1,026 60
2021 General $671 42
2021 Research $84,412 2
2020 General $876 48
2020 Research $16,017 2
2019 General $693 37
2019 Research $10,867 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Najmuddin Karimjee
  • Internal Medicine median
  • Middle half of Internal Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Najmuddin Karimjee were reported at $1,749. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year Najmuddin Karimjee Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $693 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $876 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $671 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $1,026 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $1,183 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $2,132 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $1,749 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $2,096 150 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,027 46 payments
  3. Astellas Pharma US Inc $874 47 payments
  4. Lilly USA, LLC $363 19 payments
  5. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $319 15 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $269 9 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $194 20 payments
  8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $192 11 payments
  9. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $179 9 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $164 9 payments
  11. Other $2,652 147 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,237 479 payments
  2. Education $92 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. SYNTHROID $790 50 payments
  2. UBRELVY $781 60 payments
  3. Veozah $612 35 payments
  4. FARXIGA $595 27 payments
  5. LINZESS $518 34 payments
  6. AIRSUPRA $321 8 payments
  7. QULIPTA $312 28 payments
  8. CREON $312 21 payments
  9. XARELTO $221 14 payments
  10. MOUNJARO $210 8 payments
  11. Other $5,906 337 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. Eli Lilly and Company $111,297 6 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $18,591 6 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 438 drugs

Part D claims

115,746

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$12,597,598

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

23.8%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 1,199 $1,629,484
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 1,180 $1,598,676
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 1,073 $1,124,886
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 642 $711,916
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 471 $564,165
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 580 $557,517
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 282 $347,533
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 322 $332,136
Rybelsus Semaglutide Brand 172 $330,211
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 308 $303,350

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 438 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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 97 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$803,830

Of which drugs: $2,668

Medicare patients

1,593

Average age 70

Services billed

40,291

919 women, 674 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 42%
Arthritis 40%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
COPD 21%
Depression 21%
Heart failure 16%
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, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 253 13,100 $1,203
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 328 4,646 $325
Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 Office 98 694 $304
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 Office 112 130 $288
Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 Office 169 911 $275
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 57 167 $120
Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg J3420 Office 18 29 $31

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 31 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
SYNTHROID
  • AbbVie, Inc. $336
$336 177 —
Veozah
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc $289
$289 26 —
UBRELVY
  • AbbVie, Inc. $253
$253 15 —
MOUNJARO
  • Lilly USA, LLC $192
$192 1,199 —
AIRSUPRA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $158
$158 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.

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Records

494 reported

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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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