Paolo Briones
Family · Humble, TXNPI 1932617933
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 333 payments — averaging $20.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$1K
- Boston Scientific$861
- Merck$808
- Johnson & Johnson$483
- Boehringer Ingelheim$405
- Novo Nordisk$397
- plus $3K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,81499%
- Education$951%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 73 | $1,182 |
| Boston Scientific | 28 | $861 |
| Merck | 44 | $808 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $483 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 29 | $405 |
| Novo Nordisk | 21 | $397 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 19 | $361 |
| Amgen | 14 | $329 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $271 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $248 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $239 |
| Abbott | 5 | $202 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 5 | $184 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $138 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $119 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 7 | $78 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $66 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $65 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| Bayer | 3 | $57 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $25 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $23 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $22 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Repatha$122
- UPTRAVI$120
- OPSUMIT$120
- MitraClip System$115
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$103
How this compares
$6,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
Other family in Humble
- Lashonda CraneHouston$3.4M
- David WeirDallas$959K
- Luba YammineHouston$479K
- Robin BeachHouston$428K
- Nirupama JeromeAustin$418K
- April LopezMcAllen$417K
- Linda MercadoHouston$211K
- Sarah AguilarHouston$199K
- Sie ThomasDallas$197K
- Anna CastroSan Antonio$184K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.