Karen Salazar
Acute Care · Houston, TXNPI 1124561857
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 81 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 32.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $878 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $55 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $23.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$632
- AbbVie$240
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$176
- Johnson & Johnson$109
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$74
- Boehringer Ingelheim$70
- plus $640 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,942100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 17 | $632 |
| AbbVie | 15 | $240 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 8 | $176 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $109 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $70 |
| Merck | 3 | $70 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $67 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 3 | $65 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $53 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $47 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $45 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $41 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $32 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 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.
- CARDIOMEMS$141
How this compares
$1,942 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,323 acute care providers in Texas.
Other acute care in Houston
- Afton DickersonHouston$27K
- Eleanor WeltgeHouston$25K
- Michelle JohnstonHouston$18K
- Amanda BergeronHouston$12K
- Nicole OnaHouston$12K
- Prashanth AnumandlaHouston$12K
- Ken ChanHouston$11K
- Brittney RichardHouston$11K
- Antonio Paolo AlmacenHouston$11K
- Laura WuesteHouston$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.