Tonia Heck
Physician Assistant · El Paso, TXNPI 1649212853
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 272 payments — averaging $27.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$886
- CSL Behring$879
- GSK$789
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$442
- Incyte Corporation$410
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,34998%
- Education$1162%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 37 | $1,808 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 28 | $886 |
| CSL Behring | 45 | $879 |
| GSK | 44 | $789 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 19 | $442 |
| Incyte Corporation | 21 | $410 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 16 | $366 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 2 | $269 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $262 |
| Sanofi | 11 | $225 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $185 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 9 | $173 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 3 | $170 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Novartis | 6 | $108 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $71 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $46 |
| Amgen | 2 | $43 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $37 |
| X4 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, 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
$7,465 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Epinephrine | 15 | $2,486 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 63 | $2,208 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 46 | $1,419 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 34 | $1,157 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 95 | $1,053 |
| Desloratadine | 23 | $888 |
| Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride | 121 | $865 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 40 | $550 |
| Cromolyn Sodium | 22 | $458 |
| Famotidine | 35 | $443 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 61 | $436 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 88 | $430 |
| Carbinoxamine Maleate | 17 | $358 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 34 | $324 |
| Cyproheptadine Hcl | 13 | $244 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in El Paso
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.