Lourdes Pickens, NP
Acute Care · Houston, TXNPI 1700333481
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,233 of the $9,226 with a category attached, or 89.2%. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among acute care 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 110 payments — averaging $83.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$999
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$525
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$99311%
- Food & beverage$8,23389%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 19 | $2,027 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,705 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $1,091 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $1,068 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $999 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $525 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $479 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $225 |
| Amgen | 4 | $183 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $137 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $111 |
| Merck | 3 | $93 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $64 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $53 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $33 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $26 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$951
- Impella$710
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$679
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$607
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$584
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$458
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$440
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$435
- Avalus$426
- Epic$295
- MitraClip$241
- HemoSphere$225
- KONECT RESILIA$164
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$158
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$156
- Micra$153
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$150
- COSEAL$147
- PREVELEAK$146
- COMET$137
How this compares
$9,226 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,323 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 13 | $860 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.