Michael Noel
Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1366447526
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.8% of the total across 293 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 40 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,023 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $21 in 2024.
Across 293 payments — averaging $14.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$530
- AstraZeneca$530
- Merck$352
- Pfizer$332
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$311
- Boehringer Ingelheim$261
- plus $2K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,291100%
- 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.
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
$4,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Other family medicine in Houston
- Shannon SchraderHouston$216K
- Candice WinfulHouston$173K
- Guljeet SohalHouston$72K
- Lakecia PittsHouston$71K
- Carlos CamposNew Braunfels$1.5M
- Aaron KingSan Antonio$1.1M
- Bradley WassonArlington$734K
- Cynthia BrinsonAustin$402K
- Michael MendezLubbock$368K
- Sang Tae KimAmarillo$368K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.