Sophia Zafar
Physician Assistant · Houston, TXNPI 1255813473
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 113 payments — averaging $20.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$600
- AbbVie$374
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$249
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$132
- Livanova USA, Inc.$113
- Alkermes, Inc.$111
- plus $715 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,26999%
- Education$251%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 17 | $600 |
| AbbVie | 30 | $374 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 19 | $249 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 6 | $132 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 3 | $111 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $58 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 3 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $42 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 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
$2,293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lurasidone Hcl | 36 | $6,617 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 13 | $830 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 17 | $546 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 27 | $480 |
| Clonazepam | 26 | $411 |
| Aripiprazole | 14 | $344 |
| Alprazolam | 29 | $337 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 15 | $235 |
| Benztropine Mesylate | 18 | $166 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 11 | $162 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 31 | $139 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $138 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 16 | $112 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 19 | $82 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 16 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Simone SteeleHouston$237K
- Amanda WilhiteHouston$207K
- Christina YazdaniHouston$72K
- Julie Huynh-LuHouston$64K
- Jennifer FalconeHouston$48K
- Jacqueline WeatherlyHouston$47K
- Samantha SalvatoraHouston$45K
- Virginia SchneiderHouston$43K
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.