John Posey
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1043216203
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 144 payments — averaging $15.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$353
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$287
- Merck$224
- Novo Nordisk$191
- AbbVie$163
- Boehringer Ingelheim$133
- plus $885 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,231100%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 17 | $353 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 20 | $287 |
| Merck | 20 | $224 |
| Novo Nordisk | 14 | $191 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $163 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $133 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $128 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $126 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $104 |
| Abbott | 1 | $98 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $55 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| GSK | 2 | $27 |
| Titan Spine, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Gilead | 2 | $24 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$2,237 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Houston
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Isabella GlitzaHouston$14.8M
- Murtaza MussajiHouston$13.1M
- Hussein TawbiHouston$12.6M
- Hans LeeHouston$11.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.