Jonathan Espana
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Houston, TXNPI 1629272281
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 85 payments — averaging $23.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$362
- Lupin Inc.$142
- Nevro Corp.$132
- Minerva Surgical, Inc$125
- Sanofi$125
- Myriad Women's Health, Inc.$113
- plus $974 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,972100%
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(2 entities) | 30 | $362 |
| Lupin Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $132 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $125 |
| Myriad Women's Health, Inc. | 3 | $113 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $96 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 7 | $84 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $71 |
| Bayer | 3 | $64 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $45 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Merck | 3 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Gen-probe, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Organon | 2 | $11 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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
$1,972 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,099 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Texas.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Houston
- Amir JazaeriHouston$19.5M
- Shannon WestinHouston$17.3M
- Mark JacobsHouston$2.8M
- Sandra HurtadoHouston$1.7M
- Dawn BlackHouston$1.2M
- George KuhnHouston$244K
- Luis Sandoval-MartinezHouston$234K
- Daisy AyimHouston$188K
- Asha BhalwalHouston$151K
- Monica LopezFort Worth$8.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.