David Castro
Pediatrics · San Antonio, TXNPI 1093702433
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 130 payments — averaging $17.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$495
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$285
- Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC$176
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$169
- Pfizer$138
- Dermavant Sciences, Inc.$136
- plus $872 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,271100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 41 | $495 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 18 | $285 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 9 | $176 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $169 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $138 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $136 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 8 | $127 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 6 | $92 |
| Merck | 6 | $92 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| GM Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- VTAMA$136
How this compares
$2,271 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in San Antonio
- Kenneth EtokhanaSan Antonio$3.2M
- Melissa SvobodaSan Antonio$175K
- Dianna BurnsSan Antonio$100K
- Patricia AmersonSan Antonio$73K
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Clifford YutThe Woodlands$10.2M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Robert BellBeaumont$9.3M
- John ClintonPort Lavaca$8.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.