Lara Leonhardt
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1033305974
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,000 of the $9,532 with a category attached, or 73.4%. Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. accounts for 75.9% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,457 and has fallen 56.1% since, to $2,396 in 2025. Among pediatrics clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 109 payments — averaging $87.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.$7K
- Tris Pharma Inc$414
- AbbVie$282
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$270
- GSK$210
- Pfizer$184
- plus $941 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,00073%
- Food & beverage$2,53227%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $7,232 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 11 | $414 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $282 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 19 | $270 |
| GSK | 5 | $210 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $184 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $175 |
| Insulet Corporation | 7 | $114 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $112 |
| Merck | 4 | $67 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $66 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $62 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Companion Medical, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $39 |
| Corium, LLC | 3 | $36 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- YCANTH$7,000
- Dyanavel XR$249
- BEXSERO$122
- CeQur Simplicity$112
- Lupron Depot$101
How this compares
$9,532 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Pedro PiedraHouston$729K
- Vernon SuttonHouston$90K
- Carlos BacinoHouston$53K
- Farida AbidHouston$50K
- Lindsay CameronHouston$32K
- Juan Torres SanchezHouston$31K
- Martin YudovichHouston$24K
- Raegan HuntHouston$23K
- Michael PickettHouston$14K
- Autumn AtkinsonHouston$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.