Alfred Poindexter
Gynecology · Houston, TXNPI 1326129362
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,688 of the $4,727 with a category attached, or 99.2%. AbbVie accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 5 payments — averaging $945.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$5K
- Ferring International Pharmascience Center US$26
- Merck$14
Across 439 payments — averaging $3650.23 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$699K
- Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc.$256K
- Bayer$197K
- Sebela Women's Health Inc.$153K
- Pfizer$67K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$64K
- plus $167K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,68899%
- Food & beverage$401%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 3 | $4,688 |
| Ferring International Pharmascience Center US | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Orilissa$1,838
How this compares
$4,727 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 161 gynecology providers in Texas.
Other gynecology in Houston
- Robert ZurawinHouston$61K
- Nicolas XydasHouston$19K
- Maurice LeibmanHouston$10K
- Glenn MorganHouston$7K
- Pinky RonenHouston$4K
- M Bruce ChristophersonHouston$3K
- John IrwinHouston$2K
- Richard FarnamEl Paso$1.2M
- Jessica ShepherdDallas$809K
- Linda LacyEl Paso$627K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.