Diana Chou, PA
Physician Assistant · Katy, TXNPI 1164820940
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $15,067 of the $16,805 with a category attached, or 89.7%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among physician assistant clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 757 payments — averaging $22.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Novartis$2K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$1K
- Incyte Corporation$894
- plus $8K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7504%
- Speaking & faculty fees$790%
- Food & beverage$15,06790%
- Education$9095%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 106 | $1,870 |
| Novartis | 134 | $1,746 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 53 | $1,601 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 70 | $1,553 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 38 | $1,047 |
| Incyte Corporation | 29 | $894 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 31 | $884 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 44 | $871 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 3 | $852 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 29 | $784 |
| Pfizer | 38 | $629 |
| Sanofi | 17 | $616 |
| Almirall LLC | 17 | $514 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 28 | $506 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 31 | $490 |
| UCB, Inc. | 14 | $437 |
| Amgen | 22 | $411 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $259 |
| Organon | 16 | $228 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $173 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 6 | $152 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $110 |
| Hill Dermaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 6 | $32 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 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
$16,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 19 | $582 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 52 | $535 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 30 | $394 |
| Ketoconazole | 20 | $178 |
| Glycopyrrolate | 12 | $130 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Katy
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
- Heidi JeffreysLubbock$259K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.