Miguel Sierra-Hoffman, MD
Infectious Disease · Victoria, TXNPI 1265472906
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 735 payments — averaging $323.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$56K
- AbbVie$54K
- Merck$43K
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$36K
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$25K
- Insmed, Inc.$9K
- plus $15K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$19,4588%
- Speaking & faculty fees$161,85268%
- Travel & lodging$36,98016%
- Food & beverage$17,7147%
- Education$1,9571%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 114 | $55,642 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 163 | $54,344 |
| Merck | 107 | $43,135 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 56 | $36,126 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 28 | $24,546 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 64 | $9,374 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 35 | $5,990 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 27 | $5,341 |
| Shionogi Inc | 16 | $577 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 39 | $456 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $402 |
| Gilead | 11 | $370 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 11 | $242 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $211 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $180 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $118 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $116 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 4 | $107 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $74 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $71 |
| Invivyd Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $38 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Cormedix Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| T2 Biosystems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $15 |
| EMD Serono, 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.
How this compares
$237,960 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 576 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 19 | $239,500 |
| GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen | 17 | $65,341 |
| TivicayDolutegravir Sodium | 12 | $27,234 |
| Bicillin L-APenicillin G Benzathine | 19 | $20,422 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 25 | $20,178 |
| Darunavir | 12 | $19,017 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 12 | $5,894 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 17 | $3,834 |
| Voriconazole | 12 | $3,435 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 14 | $2,668 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 11 | $2,488 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 83 | $579 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 21 | $577 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 12 | $556 |
| Linezolid | 15 | $528 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GileadGenvoya | $370 | $65,34117 claims |
| AstraZenecaSymbicort | $116 | $2,48811 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 576 infectious disease providers in Texas.
Other infectious disease in Victoria
- Thomas KasparVictoria$100K
- Gene VoskuhlSherman$69.5M
- Mezgebe BerheDallas$11M
- Eleftherios MylonakisHouston$6.4M
- Mamta JainDallas$3.7M
- Cheryl McDonaldFort Worth$3.1M
- Ogechika AlozieEl Paso$2.5M
- Roberto ArduinoHouston$2.1M
- Issam RaadHouston$2M
- Joseph GatheHouston$1.9M
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.