Cristina Valdez
Family Medicine · Irving, TXNPI 1740233790
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 278 payments — averaging $24.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Novo Nordisk$766
- Boehringer Ingelheim$663
- GSK$625
- Johnson & Johnson$617
- Lilly USA, LLC$439
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,760100%
- Education$290%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 58 | $1,725 |
| Novo Nordisk | 35 | $766 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 40 | $663 |
| GSK | 19 | $625 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $617 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $439 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $348 |
| Abbott | 1 | $215 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $201 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $134 |
| Merck | 10 | $134 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $124 |
| Exact Sciences | 7 | $123 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $112 |
| Bayer | 1 | $108 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $76 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Althera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $36 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $12 |
| Genentech USA, 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.
How this compares
$6,789 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 12 | $12,278 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $1,095 |
| Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 21 | $287 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 32 | $273 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 26 | $272 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 27 | $228 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 32 | $216 |
| Simvastatin | 26 | $187 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 12 | $181 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $135 |
| Carvedilol | 11 | $133 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $118 |
| Metformin Hcl | 39 | $98 |
| Losartan Potassium | 19 | $76 |
| Finasteride | 13 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Irving
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
- Hareshkumar BogharaDesoto$30.3M
- Earl MartinTomball$30.1M
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
- William SegerFort Worth$27.5M
- Veronica FragosoHouston$24.5M
- Joel SolisMcAllen$21.1M
- George AtieeSan Antonio$19.9M
- Bonnie ColvilleHouston$19.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.