Tamecka Knight
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1982806709
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $53.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$917
- Sanofi$468
- AbbVie$461
- Pfizer$330
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$311
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$272
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,350100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 17 | $917 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $468 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $461 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $330 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $311 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $272 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 10 | $167 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $125 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $108 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Amgen | 1 | $78 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Biogen | 1 | $61 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $56 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| LNHC, Inc | 1 | $45 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Merck | 2 | $43 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Organon | 1 | $30 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$4,350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.