Veronica Fragoso
Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1578730347
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (59.5%), food and beverage and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Pfizer accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,074 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $19 in 2025.
Across 9 payments — averaging $234.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$2K
- Dexcom, Inc.$19
Across 1,556 payments — averaging $15,768 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$10.7M
- Pfizer$10.2M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$2.4M
- Novavax Inc$554K
- Merck$390K
- AbbVie$280K
- plus $66K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,25759%
- Food & beverage$83740%
- Gifts$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 8 | $2,094 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- PREVNAR - 13$1,203
How this compares
$2,113 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Other family medicine in Houston
- Shannon SchraderHouston$216K
- Candice WinfulHouston$173K
- Guljeet SohalHouston$72K
- Lakecia PittsHouston$71K
- Carlos CamposNew Braunfels$1.5M
- Aaron KingSan Antonio$1.1M
- Bradley WassonArlington$734K
- Cynthia BrinsonAustin$402K
- Michael MendezLubbock$368K
- Sang Tae KimAmarillo$368K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.