Hazel Aguda
Gastroenterology · Houston, TXNPI 1871136192
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 439 payments — averaging $21.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$951
- Axonics, Inc.$620
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$617
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$550
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$408
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2633%
- Food & beverage$9,18297%
- Education$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 178 | $3,980 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 77 | $951 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 9 | $620 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 14 | $617 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 27 | $550 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $408 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 34 | $384 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 19 | $327 |
| Gilead | 19 | $299 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $254 |
| Merck | 8 | $172 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $122 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $103 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $94 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $54 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $33 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $10 |
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
$9,468 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.
Other gastroenterology in Houston
- Mazen NoureddinHouston$6.1M
- James MaherHouston$5.3M
- Uma MohanHouston$5M
- John VierlingHouston$2.8M
- Bincy AbrahamHouston$2.5M
- Jason HouHouston$2.3M
- Jignesh ShahHouston$1.7M
- Mouhamad Al-SabbaghHouston$1.6M
- Mohamed OthmanHouston$1.6M
- Harry OjeasHouston$1.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.