Lu Dai, PA
Physician Assistant · Houston, TXNPI 1790399731
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 74 payments — averaging $25.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$250
- Johnson & Johnson$233
- Seagen Inc.$156
- AstraZeneca$149
- Incyte Corporation$137
- Regeneron$116
- plus $836 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,48679%
- Education$39121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 16 | $250 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $233 |
| Seagen Inc. | 5 | $156 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $149 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $137 |
| Regeneron | 2 | $116 |
| GSK | 1 | $100 |
| Bayer | 4 | $82 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 4 | $79 |
| Amgen | 3 | $72 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $71 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $42 |
| Morphosys, US Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $32 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $16 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- BLENREP$100
How this compares
$1,877 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 39 | $827 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 26 | $143 |
| Dexamethasone | 15 | $141 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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.