Kris Martinez
Physician Assistant · Houston, TXNPI 1316267461
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 462 payments — averaging $25.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$3K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Amgen$781
- Lilly USA, LLC$586
- Pfizer$580
- plus $4K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,20010%
- Food & beverage$10,64890%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 112 | $2,587 |
| AstraZeneca | 66 | $1,864 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $1,545 |
| Amgen | 33 | $781 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 34 | $586 |
| Pfizer | 27 | $580 |
| Bayer | 20 | $507 |
| GSK | 16 | $458 |
| AbbVie | 27 | $373 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 17 | $372 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 16 | $320 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 7 | $265 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $234 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $189 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $181 |
| Gilead | 9 | $157 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 5 | $107 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $83 |
| Abbott | 3 | $73 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Merck | 4 | $65 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $63 |
| Novartis | 4 | $63 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $13 |
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
$11,860 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 61 | $73,355 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 39 | $56,977 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 41 | $36,649 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 16 | $26,683 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 20 | $23,723 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 13 | $22,629 |
| EliquisApixaban | 20 | $21,003 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 18 | $14,967 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 13 | $13,459 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $7,715 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 14 | $5,086 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 12 | $2,583 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 262 | $2,547 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 287 | $2,107 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 85 | $2,050 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $586 | $100,03877 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $2,587 | $79,60652 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $63 | $36,64941 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,864 | $23,72320 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $580 | $21,00320 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $65 | $14,96718 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $458 | $13,45913 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $234 | $7,71512 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $373 | $1,81418 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Houston
- Simone SteeleHouston$237K
- Amanda WilhiteHouston$207K
- Christina YazdaniHouston$72K
- Julie Huynh-LuHouston$64K
- Jennifer FalconeHouston$48K
- Jacqueline WeatherlyHouston$47K
- Samantha SalvatoraHouston$45K
- Virginia SchneiderHouston$43K
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.