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

Samden Lhatoo

Clinical Neurophysiology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1831411693 CMS profile 985373

6410 Fannin St Ste 1014, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$65,546

259 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, Samden Lhatoo of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $65,546 across 259 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 Clinical Neurophysiology 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 $7,842 67
2024 General $41,013 47
2023 General $1,699 49
2022 General $8,275 57
2021 General $1,038 26
2020 General $3,594 4
2019 General $2,085 9

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Samden Lhatoo
  • Clinical Neurophysiology median
  • Middle half of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Samden Lhatoo were reported at $7,842. Among 259 Clinical Neurophysiology profiles paid that year, the median was $435 and the middle half received between $121 and $1,917.

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Year Samden Lhatoo Clinical Neurophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,085 $306 $88–$1,636 $163
2020 $3,594 $299 $85–$1,847 $114
2021 $1,038 $325 $96–$2,308 $132
2022 $8,275 $395 $106–$1,957 $149
2023 $1,699 $388 $120–$1,718 $160
2024 $41,013 $471 $137–$1,931 $164
2025 $7,842 $435 $121–$1,917 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LivaNova USA, Inc. $34,025 22 payments
  2. UCB, Inc. $9,404 54 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $6,132 20 payments
  4. Ucb SA $3,850 3 payments
  5. Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. $3,529 3 payments
  6. NeuroPace, Inc. $3,393 7 payments
  7. SK Life Science, Inc. $2,715 64 payments
  8. Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. $1,396 51 payments
  9. Eisai Inc. $222 6 payments
  10. Neurelis, Inc. $154 2 payments
  11. Other $727 27 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 $24,256 12 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $16,538 15 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $16,153 8 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $8,583 223 payments
  5. Education $17 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR $16,329 12 payments
  2. VNS Therapy $10,427 6 payments
  3. Fintepla $9,329 19 payments
  4. VNS THERAPY SYMMETRY MODEL 8103 GENERATOR $7,212 2 payments
  5. Epidiolex $4,896 53 payments
  6. RNS Neurostimulator Kit $3,157 4 payments
  7. Briviact $2,183 20 payments
  8. XCOPRI $209 2 payments
  9. APTIOM $205 7 payments
  10. Nayzilam $170 4 payments
  11. Other $1,167 35 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 · 28 drugs

Part D claims

1,020

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$554,900

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

38.1%

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
Epidiolex Cannabidiol (Cbd) Brand 43 $179,395
Xcopri Cenobamate Brand 77 $105,309
Briviact Brivaracetam Brand 42 $60,347
Vimpat Lacosamide Brand 34 $51,643
Lamictal Lamotrigine Brand 31 $39,940
Nayzilam Midazolam Brand 25 $26,059
Trokendi Xr Topiramate Brand 21 $24,600
Valtoco Diazepam Brand 11 $9,396
Levetiracetam Generic 165 $9,395
Lacosamide Generic 107 $9,355

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 28 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 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 · 30 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$58,093

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

202

Average age 69

Services billed

812

92 women, 110 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 51%
Diabetes 43%
Ischemic heart disease 38%
Chronic kidney disease 36%
Heart failure 35%
Depression 35%
Alzheimer's or dementia 34%

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 7 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
Fintepla
  • UCB, Inc. $5,212
  • UCB SA $3,850
$9,062 — —
Epidiolex
  • JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $514
$514 43 —
SYMPAZAN
  • Otter Pharmaceuticals, LLC $25
$25 — —
Briviact
  • UCB, Inc. $25
$25 42 —
VYALEV
  • AbbVie, Inc. $24
$24 — —

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

259 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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