Cathy He, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1205248069
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 201 payments — averaging $53.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Globus Medical$255
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$220
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,58524%
- Food & beverage$7,75272%
- Education$4504%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 34 | $3,735 |
| Nevro Corp. | 33 | $2,277 |
| Abbott | 35 | $2,048 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $1,006 |
| Globus Medical | 12 | $255 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 16 | $220 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $187 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $105 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 4 | $60 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $59 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $52 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $37 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $28 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Vertex | 1 | $24 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, 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.
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$1,894
- Senza$937
- Axium INS DRG IPG$624
- Omnia$540
- INTELLIS$431
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$355
- Intracept$348
- SYNCHROMED$319
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$262
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$170
- PROCLAIM$151
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$116
- Protege Family of SCS IPGs$112
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$111
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$105
How this compares
$10,787 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 1,016 | $16,658 |
| Pregabalin | 456 | $12,509 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 353 | $4,521 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 200 | $2,957 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 345 | $1,460 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 28 | $649 |
| Celecoxib | 20 | $594 |
| Methocarbamol | 23 | $593 |
| Meloxicam | 125 | $426 |
| Lorazepam | 306 | $385 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $242 |
| Baclofen | 11 | $202 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $116 |
| Topiramate | 13 | $113 |
| Diazepam | 44 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Houston
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
- Brian BruelHouston$219K
- George AtallahHouston$48K
- Shervin HarandiHouston$39K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Duane GriffithTyler$730K
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.