George Romar
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1124641402
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,134 of the $10,214 with a category attached, or 69.8%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi at 27.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,388, more than ten times the $100 reported in 2021. Among internal medicine 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 250 payments — averaging $40.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$3K
- AbbVie$2K
- Pfizer$664
- Johnson & Johnson$650
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$629
- UCB, Inc.$607
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,30423%
- Travel & lodging$3704%
- Food & beverage$7,13470%
- Education$4064%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 5 | $2,813 |
| AbbVie | 65 | $1,816 |
| Pfizer | 25 | $664 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $650 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 18 | $629 |
| UCB, Inc. | 26 | $607 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 27 | $547 |
| Incyte Corporation | 16 | $528 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $323 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 9 | $226 |
| Organon | 9 | $207 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 7 | $204 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $179 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $162 |
| Novartis | 6 | $149 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 8 | $147 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $104 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $103 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $98 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $57 |
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
$10,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 19 | $340 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 13 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Houston
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- Hans LeeHouston$327K
- Tapan KadiaHouston$311K
- Nitin JainHouston$281K
- Krina PatelHouston$255K
- Nicholas ShortHouston$247K
- Naveen PemmarajuHouston$230K
- Mariana Chavez MacgregorHouston$188K
- Shumei KatoHouston$180K
- Sukhdeep BasraHouston$168K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.