Nicholas Short, MD
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1396039178
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 212 payments — averaging $83,230 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$7M
- GSK$4.5M
- Novartis$3.8M
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$1.3M
- Stemline Therapeutics Inc.$775K
- Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation$82K
- plus $132K from 16 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $610.70 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Amgen$2K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 35 | $7,016,947 |
| GSK | 12 | $4,470,046 |
| Novartis | 10 | $3,819,447 |
| Astellas Pharma Global Development | 29 | $1,349,429 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 14 | $774,975 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 45 | $81,741 |
| Amgen | 12 | $59,115 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $14,584 |
| Merck | 6 | $13,031 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $12,723 |
| Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $7,312 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $7,107 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $5,846 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. | 1 | $4,455 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $3,598 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $3,200 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $666 |
| Cepheid | 1 | $417 |
| Janssen Global Services, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Gilead | 1 | $42 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $27 |
| Morphosys, US Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$17,644,847 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine 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.
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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.