Sharon Vila-Wright
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1609106798
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 181 payments — averaging $21.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$480
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$480
- Bayer$388
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$241
- Gynesonics, Inc.$237
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$214
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,71097%
- Education$973%
- Entertainment$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 33 | $480 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 19 | $480 |
| Bayer | 17 | $388 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 11 | $241 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 4 | $237 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 9 | $214 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 9 | $196 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 13 | $193 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $177 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $121 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 5 | $114 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 4 | $95 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $93 |
| Organon | 5 | $90 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $76 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $68 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Merck | 4 | $63 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $38 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Renovia Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $25 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $20 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
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
$3,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Other surgery in Houston
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Isidoro WienerHouston$850K
- Mark HobeikaHouston$462K
- Joseph CoselliHouston$382K
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Richard KnightHouston$147K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Erik WilsonBellaire$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.