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Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1346395696
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 211 payments — averaging $24.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$870
- Novo Nordisk$812
- AstraZeneca$633
- Amgen$590
- Lilly USA, LLC$385
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$279
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,06298%
- Education$1212%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 31 | $870 |
| Novo Nordisk | 21 | $812 |
| AstraZeneca | 27 | $633 |
| Amgen | 23 | $590 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $385 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 11 | $279 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $251 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $221 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $203 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $109 |
| GSK | 5 | $102 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $72 |
| Indivior Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Abbott | 3 | $61 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 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
$5,183 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Houston
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Isabella GlitzaHouston$14.8M
- Murtaza MussajiHouston$13.1M
- Hussein TawbiHouston$12.6M
- Hans LeeHouston$11.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.