Christopher Romero
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1053671263
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 865 payments — averaging $9735.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$2.8M
- Pfizer$2.1M
- Eli Lilly$924K
- AstraZeneca$796K
- Valneva Austria GmbH$627K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$592K
- plus $529K from 12 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $3660.77 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.
- Eli Lilly$28K
- Valneva Austria GmbH$5K
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. | 373 | $2,831,266 |
| Pfizer | 120 | $2,122,324 |
| Eli Lilly | 71 | $923,531 |
| AstraZeneca | 25 | $795,626 |
| Valneva Austria GmbH | 17 | $627,365 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 82 | $591,910 |
| Amgen | 5 | $226,859 |
| Cue Health Inc. | 1 | $143,043 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 12 | $42,194 |
| Beigene, Ltd. | 12 | $35,502 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 2 | $32,716 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 26 | $21,199 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 112 | $19,224 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg | 1 | $6,677 |
| Novavax Inc | 1 | $1,400 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $265 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $100 |
| Merck | 2 | $65 |
How this compares
$8,421,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Houston
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Isabella GlitzaHouston$14.8M
- Murtaza MussajiHouston$13.1M
- Hussein TawbiHouston$12.6M
- Hans LeeHouston$11.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.