Katherine Snyder

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Colleagues at Austin Gastroenterology PLLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 79 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Angel Eduardo Alcocer, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Austin, TX
• Mrs. Nichole Lauren Fleming, PA Physician Assistant · Austin, TX
• Dr. Robert L Frachtman, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Austin, TX
• Kara Anette Herrera, PA Physician Assistant · Round Rock, TX
• Dr. Robert W. Klapheke Internal Medicine Physician · Austin, TX
• Dr. Venkata Sumana Kumarappa, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Round Rock, TX
• Sarah Renee Lear, CNP Nurse Practitioner · Round Rock, TX
• Dr. Chad J Long, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Round Rock, TX
• Vijayrama Reddy Poreddy, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Round Rock, TX
• Dr. Richard M Sperling, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Austin, TX
• Dr. David L. Valadez, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Round Rock, TX
• Dr. Cecelia Cici Xi Zhang, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Austin, TX

Other providers in Dripping Springs

• Catherine Anne Edwards, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1326392051

  249 Sportsplex Dr Ste 204, Dripping Springs, TX 78620-2350 · (512) 324-9570

• Ashley Austin Evans, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1891041513

  13830 Sawyer Ranch Rd Ste 304, Dripping Springs, TX 78620-5513 · (512) 454-3781

• MS. Laura R Johnson, PA

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1417948530

  170 Benney Ln Ste 201, Dripping Springs, TX 78620-5559 · (512) 829-2101

• Erin Seeley, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1710749007

  13830 Sawyer Ranch Rd Ste 302, Dripping Springs, TX 78620-5514 · (512) 894-2294