George Williams, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1306047543
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $25,480 of the $32,632 with a category attached, or 78.1%. Merck accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $23,695 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $17 in 2025. Among critical care 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 51 payments — averaging $639.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$32K
- Masimo Corporation$57
- EKOS Corporation$37
- Sanofi$32
- BD$28
- AbbVie$20
- plus $66 from 4 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $10,335 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$155K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6752%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,48078%
- Travel & lodging$5,20716%
- Food & beverage$1,2544%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 39 | $32,392 |
| Masimo Corporation | 3 | $57 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $37 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $32 |
| BD | 1 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 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.
- BRIDION$31,501
How this compares
$32,632 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 507 critical care medicine 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.
Other critical care medicine in Houston
- Edwin ParsleyHouston$283K
- Bindu AkkantiHouston$185K
- Faisal MasudHouston$155K
- Sergio Trevino CastilloHouston$133K
- Sami HossriHouston$34K
- Nicholas VillalobosHouston$26K
- Ranjan UpadhyayHouston$25K
- Deepa GoturHouston$23K
- Hany Abd-El MalekHouston$19K
- Kha DinhHouston$13K
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.