Brent Cham
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1265061600
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $33.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$499
- Sanofi$352
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$208
- Incyte Corporation$189
- AstraZeneca$177
- Bristol Myers Squibb$166
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,62889%
- Education$33111%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead(2 entities) | 12 | $499 |
| Sanofi | 7 | $352 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $208 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $189 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 8 | $177 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $166 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $148 |
| Seagen Inc. | 3 | $137 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $136 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $109 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $103 |
| Merck | 3 | $84 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $82 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Bayer | 3 | $72 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $65 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
How this compares
$2,958 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Houston
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Isabella GlitzaHouston$14.8M
- Murtaza MussajiHouston$13.1M
- Hussein TawbiHouston$12.6M
- Hans LeeHouston$11.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.