Maria Caldas-Vasquez
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1508024464
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 110 payments — averaging $34.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$566
- Sanofi$429
- AbbVie$407
- Pharming Healthcare, Inc.$244
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$222
- Abbott$214
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,799100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 22 | $566 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $429 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $407 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 8 | $244 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $222 |
| Abbott | 2 | $214 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 9 | $176 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $156 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $103 |
| GSK | 1 | $102 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $96 |
| Biogen | 1 | $95 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $94 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $90 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
- Pedro PiedraHouston$2.9M
- Homero GarzaHouston$1.7M
- Vernon SuttonHouston$1.2M
- Daniel GlazeHouston$981K
- Naila SiddiqiHouston$642K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.