Carolina Placencia
Pediatrics · Spring, TXNPI 1871593186
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 95 payments — averaging $17.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$269
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$238
- Merck$214
- Corium, LLC$189
- Sobi, Inc$149
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$97
- plus $533 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,688100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 15 | $269 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $238 |
| Merck | 12 | $214 |
| Corium, LLC | 12 | $189 |
| Sobi, Inc | 4 | $149 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 7 | $97 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $70 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $50 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Spring
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Clifford YutThe Woodlands$10.2M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Robert BellBeaumont$9.3M
- John ClintonPort Lavaca$8.6M
- Ronald BlairDallas$7.7M
- Wieslaw JakubowskiCorpus Christi$5M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.