Irving Salinas
Physician Assistant · Edinburg, TXNPI 1073244836
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $20.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$533
- AstraZeneca$511
- Novo Nordisk$394
- Lilly USA, LLC$290
- Bayer$258
- Boehringer Ingelheim$154
- plus $445 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,55499%
- Education$321%
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 | 38 | $533 |
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $511 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $394 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $290 |
| Bayer | 15 | $258 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $154 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $79 |
| Amgen | 4 | $79 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $51 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Edinburg
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.