Helen Shpats
General Practice · Houston, TXNPI 1144278813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,534 of the $2,004 with a category attached, or 76.6%. Modernatx, Inc. accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among general practice clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 11 payments — averaging $182.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$2K
- Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$102
Across 377 payments — averaging $8722.21 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$2.6M
- Pfizer$641K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$57K
- Amgen$7K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$2K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,53477%
- Food & beverage$46923%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 10 | $1,902 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
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.
- Spin$102
How this compares
$2,004 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,074 general practice providers in Texas.
Other general practice in Houston
- Kathleen Szelei-StevensHouston$253K
- Zsolt GaramiHouston$111K
- Scott ColemanHouston$87K
- Rispba McCray-GarrisonHouston$70K
- Piya GandhiHouston$36K
- Terri AlaniHouston$30K
- Demetris GreenHouston$26K
- Steven XueHouston$19K
- Carol DupuisHouston$16K
- Rosita HamidiHouston$16K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.