Phuong Nguyen
Pain Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1265033930
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 204 payments — averaging $32.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$707
- AbbVie$353
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$253
- Pfizer$232
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,20018%
- Travel & lodging$67210%
- Food & beverage$4,68471%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 27 | $1,704 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $1,527 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 38 | $707 |
| AbbVie | 23 | $353 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 21 | $253 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $232 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $196 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 11 | $183 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $179 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $141 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 9 | $117 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $85 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 5 | $80 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| Amgen | 2 | $46 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Vertex | 1 | $33 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, 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.
- Intracept$5,352
- NURTEC ODT$1,434
- QUVIVIQ$125
How this compares
$6,556 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in Houston
- Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
- Daniel PakHouston$460K
- David LeimanHouston$281K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Jaideep MehtaHouston$161K
- Mayur KanjiaHouston$46K
- Baominh VinhHouston$44K
- Matthew ChungHouston$26K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.