Catherine Smith
Physician Assistant · Houston, TXNPI 1023608072
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 223 payments — averaging $22.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alkermes, Inc.$972
- Corium, LLC$565
- Johnson & Johnson$559
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$372
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$351
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$280
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,069100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alkermes, Inc. | 26 | $972 |
| Corium, LLC | 37 | $565 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $559 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 10 | $372 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 12 | $351 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 9 | $280 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 14 | $263 |
| AbbVie | 14 | $223 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 13 | $195 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $177 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 8 | $174 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 10 | $172 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $134 |
| Indivior Inc. | 7 | $123 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $114 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $83 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $18 |
| OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- LYBALVI$1,419
- ARISTADA$500
- INVEGA SUSTENNA$253
- INVEGA TRINZA$129
- ARISTADA INITIO$125
- REXULTI$122
- CAPLYTA$109
How this compares
$5,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Houston
- Simone SteeleHouston$237K
- Amanda WilhiteHouston$207K
- Christina YazdaniHouston$72K
- Julie Huynh-LuHouston$64K
- Jennifer FalconeHouston$48K
- Jacqueline WeatherlyHouston$47K
- Samantha SalvatoraHouston$45K
- Virginia SchneiderHouston$43K
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.