Claire Chou
Internal Medicine · Spring, TXNPI 1366271439
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 89 payments — averaging $27.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$616
- Amgen$434
- AstraZeneca$428
- Lilly USA, LLC$246
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$177
- Corcept Therapeutics$105
- plus $435 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,441100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 29 | $616 |
| Amgen | 14 | $434 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $428 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $246 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $177 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $105 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $73 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $34 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $31 |
| GSK | 1 | $27 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $25 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $16 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,441 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Spring
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Salma SaigerMesquite$16.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.