Has Paige Wheaton received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,296 in general payments to Paige Wheaton across 48 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Paige Wheaton did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Paige Wheaton come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Paige Wheaton

Surgical · Houston, TXNPI 1952996852

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,096 of the $5,296 with a category attached, or 77.3%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among surgical clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$5,296in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $110.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medinc Of Texas$1K
Stryker$1K
AstraZeneca$450
Johnson & Johnson$338
Sanofi$314
Gilead$278
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,09677%
Education$1,20023%

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
Medinc Of Texas	1	$1,200
Stryker	14	$1,051
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	4	$450
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$338
Sanofi	3	$314
Gilead	3	$278
VB Spine LLC	2	$258
Abbott	1	$167
Convatec Inc.	2	$140
Eisai Inc.	1	$124
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$120
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	1	$116
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$116
Novo Nordisk	2	$111
AbbVie	1	$109
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$100
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$100
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	1	$94
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$49
Coloplast	2	$46
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$16

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

$5,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 804 surgical providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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