Mirtha Gonzalez
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1891026316
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $23.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$820
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$296
- Lilly USA, LLC$285
- Johnson & Johnson$228
- VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc.$140
- Incyte Corporation$103
- plus $716 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,586100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 22 | $820 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $296 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $285 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 19 | $228 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $140 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $103 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| Amgen | 6 | $94 |
| Almirall LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Novartis | 2 | $43 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 2 | $29 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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
$2,586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Houston
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Isidoro WienerHouston$850K
- Mark HobeikaHouston$462K
- Joseph CoselliHouston$382K
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Richard KnightHouston$147K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Erik WilsonBellaire$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.