Rachel Gershenson
Acute Care · Houston, TXNPI 1629604152
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 52 payments — averaging $28.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$231
- Incyte Corporation$170
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$101
- Johnson & Johnson$99
- Bristol Myers Squibb$98
- Pharmaessentia USA Corporation$86
- plus $671 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,457100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $231 |
| Incyte Corporation | 7 | $170 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $101 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $99 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $98 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 3 | $86 |
| Amgen | 3 | $82 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $69 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Merck | 2 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $50 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $42 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $39 |
| GSK | 1 | $30 |
| Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| CTI Biopharma Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $24 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- GIAPREZA$101
How this compares
$1,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,323 acute care providers in Texas.
Other acute care in Houston
- Afton DickersonHouston$27K
- Eleanor WeltgeHouston$25K
- Leslie GutierrezHouston$25K
- Michelle JohnstonHouston$18K
- Amanda BergeronHouston$12K
- Nicole OnaHouston$12K
- Prashanth AnumandlaHouston$12K
- Ken ChanHouston$11K
- Brittney RichardHouston$11K
- Antonio Paolo AlmacenHouston$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.