Ester Cerdan
Adult Health · Houston, TXNPI 1457691172
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,763 of the $9,529 with a category attached, or 81.5%. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among adult health 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 81 payments — averaging $117.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cvrx, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- AbbVie$949
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$781
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$663
- AstraZeneca$660
- plus $4K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,76519%
- Food & beverage$7,76381%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cvrx, Inc. | 8 | $1,393 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,290 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $949 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 8 | $781 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 6 | $663 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $660 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $486 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $423 |
| Gilead | 3 | $347 |
| Abbott | 3 | $301 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $232 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| Merck | 2 | $224 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $220 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Vertex | 1 | $96 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $81 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Biogen | 1 | $69 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $54 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $50 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $46 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
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
$9,529 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 933 adult health providers in Texas.
Other adult health in Houston
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- Rosa RancesHouston$17K
- Claressa RosacinaHouston$17K
- Michelle MartinHouston$15K
- Loren SemonesHouston$14K
- Anthony SantosHouston$13K
- Dashawn ThomasHouston$11K
- Zandra RiveraHouston$11K
- Brandy KhodrHouston$10K
- Janice TranHouston$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.