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Joseph Varon, MD

Basic profile

Pulmonary Disease

ORCIDNPI
RegionHouston, TX · South CentralSpecialtyPulmonary DiseaseFocusRespiratory
Active KOLfindmyKOL typefindmyKOL type: our influence ranking, shown when you reveal the full profileLatest publication2021Online presenceNot yet checkedPayments2021 onwardNIH fundingNot yet indexedWhy? →

Joseph Varon is a Respiratory physician. OpenAlex indexes 1,031 publications with 12,147 citations (h-index 52); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1 registered study matched to this name. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Pulmonary Disease profiles in the findmyKOL directory.

Overview

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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1,031publications

Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.

12,147citations

Total citations across indexed works.

52h-index

Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).

Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
1clinical trials

Investigator role on registered studies.

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20companies · 2021 onward

Companies reporting payments to CMS. Facts, not judgments.

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Contact

The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.

Practice address

2219 Dorrington St
Houston, TX 770303209

Telephone

713-669-1670

Registry record last updated 10 May 2012.

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Clinical trials

Registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov where the overall official or a site investigator name-matches this physician, confirmed against known institution/geography. Latest few shown; the full list is part of the full profile.

Industry payments

20 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

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Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.

Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)

The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.

  • Respiratory

    33.6%
    Corticosteroid24.3%
    Trelegy Ellipta59%Breztri Aerosphere42%
    Part D15 patients
    beta2-Adrenergic Agonist6.9%
    Albuterol Sulfate Hfa57%Airsupra43%
    Part D<11 patients

    + 1 more class in this area

  • Nervous system

    17.9%
    Benzodiazepine5.8%
    Clonazepam100%
    Part D<11 patients
    SSRI4.5%
    Paroxetine Hcl50%Sertraline Hcl50%
    Part D<11 patients

    + 2 more classes in this area

  • Cardiovascular

    14.2%
    Calcium channel blocker12%
    Amlodipine Besylate100%
    Part D13 patients
    Beta blocker2.2%
    Metoprolol Succinate100%
    Part D<11 patients
Where care is delivered (Part B)0% facility · 100% office

Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.

Publications

Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.

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A basic profile from our physician directory: identity and practice contact from the federal NPPES registry, research from OpenAlex, trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, payments from CMS Open Payments — shown itemized where we have matched records, as a count where we only have a total. This person hasn't been through our full identity-adjudication pipeline yet, so funding, congress activity and public presence aren't shown. Absence of a section means “not yet looked,” never “none found.”