Samuel Pak
Nuclear Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1821190281
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Viiv Healthcare Company. That places this record below the midpoint for nuclear medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $150.
Across 1 payment — averaging $121.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$122
Across 138 payments — averaging $124,708 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- GSK$9.8M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$6.8M
- AbbVie$612K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$122100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $122 |
How this compares
$122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 37 nuclear medicine providers in Texas.
Other nuclear medicine in Houston
- Warren MooreHouston$13K
- Beth ChasenHouston$12K
- Lesley FlyntHouston$8K
- Devaki Shilpa SurasiHouston$7K
- Yang LuHouston$3K
- Simone KrebsHouston$3K
- Guofan XuHouston$878
- Patrick FordHouston$370
- Hubert ChuangHouston$263
- Nghi NguyenHouston$187
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.