Isela Prado
Nurse Practitioner · Houston, TXNPI 1720659683
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 86 payments — averaging $107.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Amgen$699
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$648
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$463
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$374
- plus $5K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$100%
- Food & beverage$9,262100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $1,165 |
| AbbVie | 9 | $1,060 |
| Amgen | 6 | $699 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 6 | $648 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $463 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $374 |
| Merck | 3 | $371 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $368 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $362 |
| Gilead | 4 | $348 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $287 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $276 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $242 |
| BD | 2 | $235 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $225 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $221 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $116 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $112 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Vantive US Healthcare LLC | 1 | $100 |
| GSK | 1 | $99 |
| Vertex | 1 | $96 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 1 | $86 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $83 |
| Biogen | 1 | $69 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $54 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
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
$9,272 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,422 nurse practitioner providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mirtazapine | 16 | $306 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 27 | $225 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Houston
- Melanie MorrisHouston$254K
- Kelly BrassilHouston$194K
- Julie WeatherlyHouston$87K
- Katrina KingHouston$44K
- Allison TurnerHouston$37K
- Tiffany RichardsHouston$37K
- Bianca CaloHouston$36K
- Arby CohenHouston$23K
- Virginia MarxHouston$19K
- Hermeyone BellHouston$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.