Farris Blount
Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1275550162
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 263 payments — averaging $18.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$954
- AstraZeneca$880
- Lilly USA, LLC$713
- Bayer$398
- GSK$224
- Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$200
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2605%
- Food & beverage$4,65294%
- Education$120%
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 | 75 | $954 |
| AstraZeneca | 32 | $880 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 43 | $713 |
| Bayer | 17 | $398 |
| GSK | 12 | $224 |
| Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. | 1 | $200 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $187 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $179 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $141 |
| Merck | 9 | $136 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $127 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $122 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $109 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $78 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $66 |
| Abbott | 3 | $64 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $60 |
| Gilead | 2 | $48 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $23 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Shield Therapeutics 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.
How this compares
$4,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Other family medicine in Houston
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
- Veronica FragosoHouston$24.5M
- Bonnie ColvilleHouston$19.6M
- Oscar de ValleHouston$12.8M
- van TranHouston$11M
- Joe PouzarHouston$10.7M
- Aalia Al-BarwaniHouston$6.8M
- Terence ChangHouston$3.3M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.