Octavio de la Pena
Gastroenterology · Frisco, TXNPI 1780643692
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 231 payments — averaging $25.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$597
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$458
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$319
- Johnson & Johnson$206
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$164
- plus $889 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,20037%
- Food & beverage$3,71762%
- Education$331%
- Gifts$531%
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) | 63 | $3,370 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 45 | $597 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 20 | $458 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 29 | $319 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 22 | $206 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 9 | $164 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 7 | $121 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 8 | $120 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $110 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 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.
- ZENPEP$2,200
- INJECTAFER$125
- STELARA$110
How this compares
$6,003 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.
Other gastroenterology in Frisco
- Eric LawitzSan Antonio$59.5M
- George DuvallTyler$17.5M
- John FordtranDallas$9.9M
- Timothy RitterSouthlake$7.7M
- Parvez MantryDallas$6.4M
- Mazen NoureddinHouston$6.1M
- Nadege GunnWaco$5.7M
- Michael BrownDallas$5.5M
- James MaherHouston$5.3M
- Stephen HarrisonLive Oak$5.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.