Has Julio Valdes Salinas received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,147 in general payments to Julio Valdes Salinas across 60 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Julio Valdes Salinas did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Julio Valdes Salinas come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Julio Valdes Salinas

Pediatrics · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1902159676

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.8% of the total across 60 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Tris Pharma Inc at 48.2% of the total. Among pediatrics clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$2,147in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $35.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Tris Pharma Inc$1K
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$267
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$242
GSK$79
Phadia US Inc.$64
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$49
plus $412 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$251%
Food & beverage$2,12299%

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
Tris Pharma Inc	17	$1,035
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$267
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$242
GSK	4	$79
Phadia US Inc.	1	$64
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$49
Cranial Technologies, Inc	3	$42
Exact Sciences	3	$42
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	2	$39
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	2	$35
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	2	$35
Pfizer	2	$35
Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC	1	$32
Corcept Therapeutics	1	$31
Merck	2	$28
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$26
Johnson & Johnson	1	$19
AstraZeneca	1	$19
Organon	1	$15
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$12

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

$2,147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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