Abel Paredes
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1932168614
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $19.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$319
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$178
- Merck$141
- AstraZeneca$123
- GSK$106
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$84
- plus $458 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,409100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 14 | $319 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 12 | $178 |
| Merck | 9 | $141 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $123 |
| GSK | 7 | $106 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $84 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $64 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $49 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| LNHC, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $17 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
- Pedro PiedraHouston$2.9M
- Homero GarzaHouston$1.7M
- Vernon SuttonHouston$1.2M
- Daniel GlazeHouston$981K
- Naila SiddiqiHouston$642K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.