Winston Watkins
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1679595417
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 98 payments — averaging $23.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$675
- Novo Nordisk$404
- Lilly USA, LLC$326
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$219
- Boehringer Ingelheim$148
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$114
- plus $409 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,25698%
- Education$80%
- Other$311%
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 | 15 | $675 |
| Novo Nordisk | 27 | $404 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $326 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $219 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $148 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $63 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $63 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $62 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $47 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Ozempic$124
- JARDIANCE$117
- FARXIGA$110
- TOUJEO$107
- SOLIQUA 100/33$107
How this compares
$2,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Houston
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Isabella GlitzaHouston$14.8M
- Murtaza MussajiHouston$13.1M
- Hussein TawbiHouston$12.6M
- Hans LeeHouston$11.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.