Celia Reyes-Acuna
Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1598712143
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 519 payments — averaging $10,457 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$2.5M
- Merck$1.8M
- Novavax Inc$584K
- Eisai Inc.$278K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$114K
- Pfizer$55K
- plus $80K from 9 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $306.61 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novavax Inc$2K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,320100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 44 | $2,494,135 |
| Merck | 343 | $1,821,418 |
| Novavax Inc | 2 | $583,917 |
| Eisai Inc. | 15 | $277,850 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 37 | $114,280 |
| Pfizer | 41 | $55,322 |
| GSK | 13 | $42,307 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 15 | $37,144 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $299 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Biogen | 1 | $92 |
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 1 | $90 |
| Novartis | 1 | $90 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
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.
- BEXSERO$218
- (815) Thiola$120
- VAXNEUVANCE$105
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.