Ionela Iacobas
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1265743108
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,938 of the $8,029 with a category attached, or 73.9%. Novartis accounts for 75.1% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,938 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $90 in 2025. Among pediatrics 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 7 payments — averaging $1147.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$6K
- Merck$2K
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$38
Across 25 payments — averaging $404,271 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.
- Novartis$9.7M
- Merck$424K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,93874%
- Travel & lodging$1,31216%
- Food & beverage$78010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 3 | $6,027 |
| Merck | 3 | $1,964 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
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
$8,029 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Pedro PiedraHouston$729K
- Vernon SuttonHouston$90K
- Carlos BacinoHouston$53K
- Farida AbidHouston$50K
- Lindsay CameronHouston$32K
- Juan Torres SanchezHouston$31K
- Martin YudovichHouston$24K
- Raegan HuntHouston$23K
- Michael PickettHouston$14K
- Lara LeonhardtHouston$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.