Gabriella Valverde Ha
Physician Assistant · Houston, TXNPI 1043738677
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 93 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 25.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $849, 2.3 times the $365 reported in 2021.
Across 93 payments — averaging $21.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$523
- Boehringer Ingelheim$233
- Novo Nordisk$201
- Bayer$174
- Lilly USA, LLC$167
- Amgen$117
- plus $609 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,024100%
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 | 19 | $523 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $233 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $201 |
| Bayer | 9 | $174 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $167 |
| Amgen | 7 | $117 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $84 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $83 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| GSK | 4 | $64 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Novartis | 3 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $46 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,024 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Houston
- Simone SteeleHouston$237K
- Amanda WilhiteHouston$207K
- Christina YazdaniHouston$72K
- Julie Huynh-LuHouston$64K
- Jennifer FalconeHouston$48K
- Jacqueline WeatherlyHouston$47K
- Samantha SalvatoraHouston$45K
- Virginia SchneiderHouston$43K
- Jill MillerHouston$32K
- Mercedes SerranoHouston$28K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.