Susan Bionat
Acute Care · Galveston, TXNPI 1861551681
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 155 payments — averaging $38.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- AstraZeneca$356
- Novartis$329
- Amgen$278
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$228
- Boehringer Ingelheim$214
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,905100%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 81 | $3,266 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 13 | $356 |
| Novartis | 6 | $329 |
| Amgen | 8 | $278 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 5 | $228 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $214 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $195 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $145 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $132 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $129 |
| Bayer | 2 | $126 |
| Merck | 3 | $109 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $106 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $40 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $27 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
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.
- CardioMEMS HF System$620
- CARDIOMEMS$453
- OPTIMIZER$270
- ENTRESTO$226
- TherOx DS2 Console$129
- Catheter$129
- Downstream Cartridge$129
- Inpefa$112
- LEQVIO$107
How this compares
$5,910 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,323 acute care providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Furosemide | 11 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Galveston
- Jennifer PilotteDallas$232K
- Christie MorrisonSan Antonio$225K
- Amanda BradleyDallas$85K
- Laura WilsonEl Paso$32K
- Kim HuynhCypress$29K
- Martha LibertyDallas$28K
- Afton DickersonHouston$27K
- Eleanor WeltgeHouston$25K
- Leslie GutierrezHouston$25K
- Bahia ElkamandSugar Land$23K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.