Suneet Chauhan
Maternal & Fetal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1861461287
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (59.9%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $966 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $29 in 2025.
Across 8 payments — averaging $149.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$923
- Organon$82
- Cytyc Prenatal Products Corp.$71
- Merck$58
- Biogen$30
- Boston Scientific$29
Across 7 payments — averaging $80,399 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.
- Merck$371K
- Organon$128K
- Gen-probe, Inc.$65K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$857%
- Travel & lodging$71460%
- Food & beverage$26923%
- Education$12310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $923 |
| Organon | 1 | $82 |
| Cytyc Prenatal Products Corp. | 1 | $71 |
| Merck | 1 | $58 |
| Biogen | 1 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
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.
- MAKENA$838
How this compares
$1,192 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 228 maternal & fetal medicine providers in Texas.
Other maternal & fetal medicine in Houston
- Baha SibaiHouston$132K
- Jimmy EspinozaHouston$79K
- Sean BlackwellHouston$16K
- Saul SnowiseHouston$15K
- Anushka ChelliahHouston$8K
- Lara FrielHouston$5K
- Brian KirshonHouston$5K
- Karin FoxHouston$4K
- Irene StaffordHouston$4K
- Ignatia van Den VeyverHouston$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.