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

Napoleon Higgins

Psychiatry Friendswood, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1801814363 CMS profile 263247

1560 W Bay Area Blvd, Suite 110, Friendswood, TX 77546

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General payments

$718,589

1,101 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$388,670 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Napoleon Higgins of Friendswood, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $718,589 across 1,101 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $388,670 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 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 $268,611 331
2024 General $159,218 257
2023 General $97,860 149
2022 General $54,540 106
2021 General $65,111 111
2020 General $23,186 40
2019 General $50,062 107

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Napoleon Higgins
  • Psychiatry median
  • Middle half of Psychiatry
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Napoleon Higgins were reported at $268,611. Among 14,155 Psychiatry profiles paid that year, the median was $180 and the middle half received between $58 and $685.

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Year Napoleon Higgins Psychiatry median Middle half National median
2019 $50,062 $184 $59–$605 $163
2020 $23,186 $119 $36–$372 $114
2021 $65,111 $143 $43–$576 $132
2022 $54,540 $153 $50–$590 $149
2023 $97,860 $170 $56–$651 $160
2024 $159,218 $179 $57–$673 $164
2025 $268,611 $180 $58–$685 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $214,325 275 payments
  2. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $155,011 231 payments
  3. Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $98,233 174 payments
  4. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $68,430 73 payments
  5. Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $51,520 43 payments
  6. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $30,272 35 payments
  7. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $25,680 22 payments
  8. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $15,918 16 payments
  9. Sage Therapeutics, Inc. $15,877 17 payments
  10. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $14,942 35 payments
  11. Other $28,381 180 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 $415,957 170 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $89,442 343 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $80,171 31 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $57,744 25 payments
  5. Honoraria $44,864 14 payments
  6. Food and Beverage $30,406 517 payments
  7. Education $5 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FANAPT $214,325 275 payments
  2. REXULTI $124,620 184 payments
  3. Xelstrym $53,583 46 payments
  4. QELBREE Psychology $48,309 82 payments
  5. COBENFY $48,096 43 payments
  6. Qelbree Viloxazine Hydrochloride $44,462 76 payments
  7. Auvelity $25,680 22 payments
  8. ABILIFY MAINTENA $23,815 57 payments
  9. Jornay PM $15,918 16 payments
  10. INGREZZA $14,903 33 payments
  11. Other $56,499 235 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 · 14 drugs

Part D claims

279

Median for Psychiatry & Neurology: 100

Drug cost

$19,536

Median for Psychiatry & Neurology: $2,986

Branded share of claims

11.5%

Median for Psychiatry & Neurology: 16.2%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Qelbree Viloxazine Hcl Brand 12 $7,972
Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate Generic 28 $7,018
Quetiapine Fumarate Generic 21 $1,377
Lamotrigine Generic 34 $724
Hydroxyzine Hcl Generic 12 $649
Aripiprazole Generic 22 $554
Trazodone Hcl Generic 18 $437
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 27 $275
Buspirone Hcl Generic 23 $209
Citalopram Hbr Citalopram Hydrobromide Brand 20 $130

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 14 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 10,755 Part D prescribers listed as Psychiatry & Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 22 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
FANAPT
$76,380 — —
Qelbree
$23,518 12 —
Xelstrym
$20,020 — —
COBENFY
$11,884 — —
REXULTI
$6,654 — —

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

1,101 reported

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What this means

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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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