Cassandra Cuellar
Physician Assistant · McAllen, TXNPI 1932640513
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 155 payments — averaging $18.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$449
- Novo Nordisk$363
- AbbVie$310
- Amgen$235
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$196
- Optinose US, Inc.$193
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,85599%
- Education$281%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 25 | $449 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $363 |
| AbbVie | 15 | $310 |
| Amgen | 9 | $235 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 22 | $196 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 9 | $193 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $184 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $148 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $124 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $100 |
| GSK | 4 | $89 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $73 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $70 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $66 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $58 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $57 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $29 |
| Biogen | 1 | $14 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,883 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 30 | $238 |
| Metformin Hcl | 21 | $234 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $161 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 12 | $145 |
| Pioglitazone Hcl | 14 | $120 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 18 | $68 |
| Lisinopril | 17 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in McAllen
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.