Carlotta Hillert
Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1225073208
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 255 payments — averaging $13.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$530
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$293
- Johnson & Johnson$247
- AstraZeneca$247
- Merck$219
- plus $779 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,314100%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 88 | $1,004 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 97 | $530 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 7 | $293 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $247 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $247 |
| Merck | 23 | $219 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $168 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $135 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| Amgen | 2 | $128 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$3,319 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Other family medicine in Houston
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
- Veronica FragosoHouston$24.5M
- Bonnie ColvilleHouston$19.6M
- Oscar de ValleHouston$12.8M
- van TranHouston$11M
- Joe PouzarHouston$10.7M
- Aalia Al-BarwaniHouston$6.8M
- Terence ChangHouston$3.3M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.