Sheida Asgari
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1083826341
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 104 payments — averaging $22.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$715
- Sobi, Inc$482
- Tris Pharma Inc$310
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$301
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$108
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$84
- plus $374 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,374100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 30 | $715 |
| Sobi, Inc | 16 | $482 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 6 | $310 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 21 | $301 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $108 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $42 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $37 |
| Merck | 3 | $36 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Quillivant$244
- Quillichew ER$244
- Dyanavel XR$244
- Azstarys$122
How this compares
$2,374 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
- Pedro PiedraHouston$2.9M
- Homero GarzaHouston$1.7M
- Vernon SuttonHouston$1.2M
- Daniel GlazeHouston$981K
- Naila SiddiqiHouston$642K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.